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    Polonaise: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #6
    Polonaise: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #6
    Polonaise: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #6
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    Polonaise: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #6

    By Diana Deverell

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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 a play to confuse the crooks. Can her scheme work in a crazy adolescent country prone to bizarre klutziness?

    Will Basia make it safely in and out of court? Or will the only thing under her Christmas tree be an extra-large coffin?

    First published in 2000, “Polonaise” was Dawna’s second appearance in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Later adventures are collected in Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns. Dawna also plays a supporting role Diana Deverell’s new political thriller, Bitch Out of Hell.

    A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly) in her international thriller series, Diana Deverell brings you an exciting short mystery. Buy “Polonaise” now and take a holiday in Poland!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSorrel Press
    Release dateSep 27, 2017
    ISBN9781386643319
    Polonaise: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #6
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    Diana Deverell

    Diana Deverell has published seven novels, a short fiction collection, and many short stories. Her latest project is a series of legal thrillers set in Spokane and featuring Nora Dockson, a lawyer who specializes in appeal of life imprisonment and death penalty sentences. The first, Help Me Nora, was released in July, 2014. The second, Right the Wrong, was released in March, 2015. The third book will be published in late 2015. For the latest update, visit Diana at www.dianadeverell.com Diana made her debut as a novelist in 1998 with a series of international thrillers featuring State Department counterterrorist analyst Kathryn “Casey” Collins: 12 Drummers Drumming, Night on Fire, and East Past Warsaw. The three novels are also available in a single ebook, The Casey Collins Trilogy. Diana’s short story, "Warm Bodies in a Cold War", originally published in 1996 under a different title, introduced Casey to the readership of the Foreign Service Journal. The prequel No Place for an Honest Woman expanded on Casey’s early career. The story and all four thrillers are now available as individual ebooks. In 2000, Diana’s short fiction starring FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd started making regular appearances in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Her mystery collection, Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns includes eleven Dawna Shepherd stories first published by Alfred Hitchcock, plus all-new “Latin Groove”. Both the collection and “In Plain Sight,” her 2013 mystery, are available in e-editions. Dawna’s latest adventure, “Blown,” appeared in the Kobo Special Edition of Pulse Pounders, the Januaury 2015 issue of Fiction River anthology. In 2012, Diana released her comic mystery novel, Murder, Ken Kesey, and Me as an ebook. Other digital editions include "Heart Failure", a short story set on the day Jim Morrison died, written to order for a publisher of textbooks for Danish teens learning English. Diana is a member (and past board member) of the International Association of Crime Writers. She belongs to the American Women’s Club in Denmark and her short fiction has appeared in Good Works: Prose and Poetry by Ex-Pat Women in Denmark.

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      Polonaise - Diana Deverell

      POLONAISE

      A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

      By Diana Deverell

      Published by Sorrel Press

      www.sorrelpress.com

      Table of Contents

      POLONAISE: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story by Diana Deverell

      POLONAISE

      NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

      OTHER EBOOKS BY DIANA DEVERELL

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      COPYRIGHT

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      Praise for Bitch Out of Hell, the new political thriller featuring Bella Hinton

      Helluva read! I really enjoyed this. I hope there are more books coming. The characters are intriguing, Bella is intelligent and sassy, and the plot is entertaining. (Amazon reader review)

      Diana Deverell’s newest book could be a story on the six o’clock news - the outsourcing of America’s military functions, shady corporate dealings, the suspicious death of a whistleblowing board member, and a special prosecutor’s investigation. (iBooks reader review)

      . . . a delightfully humorous and suspenseful read with realistic characters . . . and the plot twists and weaves itself into a satisfying conclusion. For a fun thriller read, check this out. (Kings River Life review)

      Praise for the Nora Dockson legal thriller series

      A great character, a great series—I highly recommend it to people. (Stephen Campbell, CrimeFiction.FM)

      Help Me Nora is a compelling gritty novel. I could not put it down and found the legal background fascinating. (Goodreads review)

      The series is great; it's got the theme of the hard scrabble up-from-poverty Nora doing her battle of wits against a scheming, social-climbing assistant attorney general, laced with tons of good detective work. (Amazon reader review)

      "Deverell has a gift that grabs the reader so one cares about what happens to every character in the story. Once one starts Nora's clear sighted and brilliant

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