Heart Failure

By Diana Deverell

Steve’s only 15 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 only 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, but the aching fear for a loved one fighting on foreign soil is timeless.

Also included as a bonus is the first chapter from Murder, Ken Kesey, and Me, a comic mystery featuring another mind-blowing sixties icon, one who lived well past the age of twenty-seven.

This is the uncut original “Heart Failure.” A condensed version was included by Danish publisher Alinea in their series about “The 27 Club,” an online supplement to the English textbook A PIECE OF CAKE, 9.

A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for “sharp storytelling” (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell has “a gift that grabs the reader so one cares about every character in the story” (reader review).

Buy "Heart Failure" today and discover this exciting writer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sorrel Press
• Release date: Aug 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386453819

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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Heart Failure

A Short Story by Diana Deverell

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Table of Contents

Heart Failure: A Short Story by Diana Deverell

HEART FAILURE

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

THE FIRST CHAPTER from MURDER, KEN KESEY, AND ME

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

OTHER EBOOKS BY DIANA DEVERELL

COPYRIGHT

Praise for Diana Deverell’s thrillers

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)

Casey Collins international thrillers

12 Drummers Drumming

Chilling suspense and heated passion—A brilliant debut. (Barbara Parker, Edgar-finalist author of Suspicion of Innocence)

Night on Fire

Deverell's solid second Casey Collins novel [has] engaging narrative, gripping mystery, and wily plot twists. (Publishers Weekly)

East Past Warsaw

. . . a tale that makes you pray it’s fiction. (S.E. Warwick, mystery reviewer)

China Box

an intricate chess match of espionage, international wheeling-dealing, and love plays out in Washington and Silicon Valley. (Amazon reader review)

Nora Dockson legal thrillers

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

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 pursuit of justice it's hard to put the book down! (Amazon reader review)

"The series is great; it's got the theme of