Payback is a Bitch: A Bella Hinton Short Story: Bella Hinton political thrillers, #1

By Diana Deverell

Security professional Bella Hinton makes a routine visit to the US Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh and ends up trapped the rear seat of her armored vehicle, surrounded by four body guards prepared to sell her to ISIS.

"Payback is a Bitch" was named a Distinguished Mystery of 2018 by Otto Penzler, editor of the The Best American Mystery Stories series.

The story sets the stage for Bella's breakout as lead in the political thriller Bitch Out of Hell.

A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you an "incredibly fast-moving short thriller . . .  the tension doesn't let up. . ." (Tangent Online review)

 Buy "Payback is a Bitch: A Bella Hinton Short Story" today and find out what really happened that fateful day in Dhaka.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sorrel Press
• Release date: Jan 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393754961

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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PAYBACK IS A BITCH: A BELLA HINTON SHORT STORY

By DIANA DEVERELL

Published by Sorrel Press

www.SorrelPress.com

Table of Contents

PAYBACK IS A BITCH: A BELLA HINTON SHORT STORY by Diana Deverell

PRAISE FOR DIANA DEVERELL’S FICTION

PAYBACK IS A BITCH

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NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

OTHER EBOOKS BY DIANA DEVERELL

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

PRAISE FOR DIANA DEVERELL’S FICTION

Payback is a Bitch was named a Distinguished Mystery of 2018 by Otto Penzler, editor of the The Best American Mystery Stories series. Featuring security professional Bella Hinton, Payback sets the stage for Bella’s breakout as lead in the Bitch Out of Hell.

Bitch Out of Hell "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)

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)

". . . a delightfully humorous and suspenseful read with realistic characters . . . and the plot twists and weaves itself into a satisfying conclusion. Bella is a minor character in other books by this author, but she is the star attraction in this