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Steve's only fifteen when his favorite lead singer dies. That loss makes him fear another.
Older brother Tom is in the army, deployed to a war zone an ocean away. In sixty days, Tom's due home, but will he make it alive? And how can a kid brother help a soldier stay safe?
The only tool Steve has is the music they both love. This short story remembers the death of the Doors' Jim Morrison in 1971.
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd wants to have a blast-literally. Based at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, she's exploding a car bomb and blowing up the crumbling pre-War building beside it.
The ambo himself will give a press conference as part of the kickoff event for the Academy's new post-blast investigation seminar. A big deal, and if anything goes wrong, her FBI career is toast.
But she planned carefully and she's confident...
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Her BS detector clicking madly, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd discovers a rat on the Danish ferry sailing from Norway to England. Not a stinky rodent, but a completely odorless Homeland Security Agent with a hidden agenda. Unlike the eighteen East European cops attending the shipboard conference, the agent organizing it has no scent, no humor, and no bling. Not a partner Dawna automatically trusts. The agent deserves her suspicion. Though the conference...
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For an ex-con, no prison visit is routine. When the gate in the perimeter fence slams shut behind Nora Dockson, her gut churns.She hates the concertina wire topping the chainlinks. The black-uniformed guard eyeing her suspiciously. The petty rules dictating when and where she can stand. Sit. Breathe.But Nora pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals lawyer. Her clients are behind bars and that's where she meets them.All are convicted...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd confronts a Warsaw crime boss, a New York City bounty hunter, and a Homeland Security agent cowboying in the middle of the North Sea, among others.
She solves crimes ranging from human trafficking to health care fraud, illegal sports betting, nuclear smuggling, and more. Foiling devious plots from Silicon Valley to Ulan Bator, Dawna shuts down not only the FBI's most wanted but also any crook fool enough to mess with...
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Rookie Washington State Trooper Andrea Clark, a supporting player in the Nora Dockson legal thriller series, takes charge in this short mystery story.Underage college students and other kids in car-dependent Spokane County are using fake IDs to buy legal pot and booze.To halt the rise in traffic deaths caused by inexperienced drivers under the influence of cannabis and alcohol, Andrea puts together a sting operation at Spokane's Mineshaft Saloon...
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Fleeing the cops, a wily Ponzi-schemer disguised in a black hat and chin whiskers is hiding among the Plain Folk wintering in a Sarasota suburb nicknamed "the Amish Las Vegas."
Trying to smoke out the fugitive, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd tangles again with persistent and hunky bounty hunter Tommy O'Brien.
She finds herself suiting up with the Florida Suncoast State University women's basketball coach and players to get her man. But which man?...
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Junior diplomat Casey Collins confronts savagery and danger in war-torn El Salvador. How will she handle the fear?Her nature gives her only two choices.Go numb and avoid trouble.Or live life with every nerve end tingling …Buy "Shut Your Eyes and You'll Be Fine" to ride along with Casey as she makes up her mind.A long-delayed glimpse into how Casey's 1982 assignment to Central America shapes her character. And a pivotal introduction to the short...
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An ex-con, Nora Dockson pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals lawyer. She focuses on rescuing women unfairly convicted of killing their loved ones.Yet she won't work for the woman who poisoned her husband and partied hard on the insurance proceeds. Privileged and reckless, Hunter Logan can afford any lawyer she wants. She doesn't need Nora.But when Nora learns more, she has to take Hunter's case. Her whole life, Nora's been getting...
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Oregon correctional center inmate Winnie Yates is serving mandatory minimum sentences adding up to nineteen years and two months. Locked up from age twenty until she turns thirty-nine.A harsh punishment when her victim came through the so-called home invasion with only a bruise on her forehead.Winnie's appeal failed but today she has a chance to make a better deal. Her reward will be immediate release, shaving forty months off her sentence.Winnie...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd goes undercover in Romania to bust a criminal gang luring impoverished young women into sexual slavery. Posing with Police Cadet Stela Dragomir as penniless sisters seeking hotel-maid jobs in Western Europe, the two law enforcement agents hope to force Vlad, the gang's sleazy recruiter, to expose the organization's bosses. A high-stakes operation with one big risk. Dawna doesn't speak a word of Romanian. Pretending...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd teams up with a long haul trucker to nail a rogue Department of Transportation safety inspector. The crooked government employee extorts money from drivers of Middle Eastern appearance who haul hazardous materials through New Jersey. Under cover as the trucker's big-haired flashy wife, Dawna has her ears peeled when the inspector leads up to his payoff demand. Until beribboned Precious, the third member of the team...
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Hoping to heal her broken heart, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd takes a break from busting bad guys to vacation at SpyGirl Fantasy Camp.
But the two Russian mobsters waiting for her aren't actors pretending they're bad. These goons plan to bust her ticker for good. A story that answers the simple question: Does a hardboiled FBI agent ever get to have fun?
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd wants to know why-and how-an unknown hacker is cyber-stalking an obscure software engineer in the Bay Area. Hacking's not Dawna's specialty. But her sister Bettijean is the engineer whose life and livelihood are on the line. And nobody messes with Dawna's family.She'll use every trick in her FBI book to find who's harming Bettijean. Even so, can a low-tech Texan hope to prevail in Silicon Valley? A Derringer and Macavity...
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Washington State Trooper Captain Kent Harper desperately needs hands-on experience with Spokane County's updated electronic Pawn Database System.
To get it, he'll investigate a minor crime way below his pay grade. The bonus is that he can also do a favor for his long-time lover Nora Dockson. A veteran cop, Kent's sure he'll identify the culprit who stole from LaNoir Kennedy, owner of Nora's favorite hair salon. Unfortunately, LaNoir waited a month...
17) Help Me Nora
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Lawyer Nora Dockson swore to tell the truth. But will she stick to her oath when only deception can save her innocent client?An ex-con, Nora pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals attorney. She works only for convicted felons, rescuing innocents trapped by the flawed process that put them behind bars.For seven years, she's tried to convince the court that her client didn't kill the victim. She failed again today.She thinks the real...
18) Lay Bare the Lie
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An ex-con, Nora Dockson pulled herself out of the gutter and became an appeals lawyer. She works only for convicted felons. She's sure her current client didn't murder his wife. The jury was misled by testimony from an expert witness who reconstructed the crime based on bloodstain patterns. She'll prove the so-called expert made leaps of logic incompatible with the latest forensic science.But a family emergency pulls her away from the case and back...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd played basketball all four years at the University of Texas. Exactly the right cover to get herself hired by a shady medical equipment manufacturer. Former college cheerleaders and athletes make up big pharma's hottest sales force. Winning personalities matter more than scientific training. The company's device tested safe for asthma patients. Not for women with histories of preterm labor. Though anecdotal evidence...
20) Hear My Plea
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An ex-con, Nora Dockson has a soft spot for underdogs. So how did police officer Wesley Mitchell jump to the top of her potential client list?
Mitchell's no underdog. Man's so well-connected, for years he evaded punishment for killing unarmed civilians. Only after the FBI and the Justice Department stepped in did a jury find him guilty of two hot-blooded murders. Mitchell's no innocent. He deserves his 65-year prison sentence.
But did the feds fight...