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A sharp and deadly femme fatale with a talent for poker, a weakness for men, and a bum kidney.Livvie's gambling her way to a life-saving transplant.Using her sweetheart Neal's body parts as the stakes.Neal antes up. He loves Livvie.But how much does Livvie love him? "… had me clutching at my organs. Macabre and twisted to hell – loved it." (AB Patterson blog review Feb. 6, 2018)Buy "Organ Trade Off: A Noir Short Story" today and take a dangerous...
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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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Working undercover, the newest police department recruit in this southern California town is the only cop available to stop a mad bomber hellbent on wrecking a theme park's grand opening.
All other law enforcement officers in town-and the California Highway Patrol-are outside trying to unsnarl the traffic jamming every road into this spanking new concept in family entertainment.
The bomber is hiding somewhere inside the 150-acre park. Youthful...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd goes undercover to get close to a crook who's been defrauding auto insurance companies for two decades. A confidential informant ratted out aging Clayton D. Cooper. Nailed him as ringleader of a major northern Virginia gang.Yet sophisticated FBI data mining programs detect no sign of Cooper's criminal activities.To learn how Cooper evades the software, Dawna has to convince Cooper she's as dirty as he is.If she succeeds,...
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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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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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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...
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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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Dawna Shepherd loves her family, working as an FBI Special Agent, and playing basketball.
She's celebrating Christmas in her home town when a bounty hunter pursues her college student brother home from Lubbock. Certain that Fugitive Team Leader Tommy O'Brien is chasing the wrong quarry, Dawna stops him cold at the Shepherd front door. But she knows O'Brien won't give up. And all her crime-fighter instincts are screaming that the bounty hunter is...
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Three days before Christmas, 2000, and FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's in Warsaw, bodyguarding a key female witness in the trial of ruthless but runty crime boss Mike the Midget.
The Polish gangster wants his ex-girlfriend Basia dead before she can testify and ruin his holiday. Dawna has to stay one step ahead of the local mafioski.
Dawna puts the six-foot-five inch two-hundred-and-thirty-pound woman in Kevlar and size seventeen hightops and fakes...
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Every year, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd gets sucked in by March Madness.The fever strikes harder when the Big Dance is set in Texas. With the Final Four happening on her own turf, Dawna has to take leave from the Bureau and fly home. Lucky for Lupe, her former teammate, now coaching women's basketball at an East Texas college. Lupe's team is headed for the tournament. And Lupe worries a betting scandal is brewing around a key player.Will illegal...
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Standing in line at her hometown bank in Texas, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd witnesses her first real bank robbery. She's in Texas to recruit female and minority agents. The bad girl robbing her bank is sharp as a pistol. And packing one, too."Latin Groove" takes Dawna back to FBI basics, pursuing a bank robber. The female FBI agent and woman criminal are each on their own turf.Can good old girl Dawna win a battle with bad young Bandita when they...
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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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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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March Madness is a month away. FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd is off-duty from her temp assignment in Seattle. And on board Amtrak's Coast Starlight, headed for Eugene. Tonight, she'll cheer for the Lady Ducks' basketball team, ranked number three in the nation.
Fate trumps that plan when her train stops in Portland.
The number one criminal on the FBI's most-wanted list boards her double-decker coach and claims the aisle seat three rows in front...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's teaching at Quantico East, the Bureau's overseas training academy. Tomorrow, she'll stage a mock bank robbery for the Central European cops who are her students. Tonight, though, she's enjoying dinner with the pair of federal agents from other agencies who are on her team. Budapest's Café Cristal was highly recommended by a local. The café is also popular with Hungarian gangs, she realizes, when she spots two rival...
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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...
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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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Life dropped teenage Toby Nielsen cold turkey into a Danish school. On day two of this adventure, he ends up on a city bus speeding away from his classmates and the place he lives. He's got no ticket, no clue where he's headed, and no taxi fare.
His gift of gab works only in English. Clever and silver-tongued, he ruled his Oregon school. But here, he can't talk people into letting him do as he pleases. He can't talk himself out of trouble when he...
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Retired intelligence analyst Casey Collins takes a pre-season package tour to the Greek island of Crete. Her bargain vacation should be a perfect way to escape February's chilly darkness, soak up Mediterranean sunshine, and study Minoan history and culture.
But she runs into two problems. First, she finds that none of the other tour group members will converse in her native language. And they don't understand her broken version of theirs.
Luckily,...
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