Shut Your Eyes and You'll Be Fine: A Casey Collins Short Story: Casey Collins International Thrillers

By Diana Deverell

Junior diplomat Casey Collins confronts savagery and danger in war-torn El Salvador. How will she deal with the fear?

Her nature gives her only two choices.

Go numb and avoid trouble.

Or live life with every nerve end tingling …

A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you a short and compelling story about gut-wrenching terror.

Buy "Shut Your Eyes and You'll Be Fine" to ride along with Casey as she makes up her mind how she'll handle it.

A long-awaited glimpse into how Casey's 1982 assignment to Central America shapes her character. And a pivotal introduction to the short story and five thrillers detailing her battle against global terrorism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sorrel Press
• Release date: Jan 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393624912

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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SHUT YOUR EYES AND YOU’LL BE FINE

A Casey Collins Short Story

By Diana Deverell

Published by Sorrel Press

www.sorrelpress.com

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SHUT YOUR EYES AND YOU’LL BE FINE: A Casey Collins Short Story by Diana Deverell

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NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

OTHER EBOOKS BY DIANA DEVERELL

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Praise for Diana Deverell’s international thrillers

12 Drummers Drumming

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

Diana Deverell was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in such place as San Salvador and Poland. So when she has the central character of her tough and moving debut thriller give us inside details of a State Department agency dedicated to fighting terrorists, they have the smack and tang of reality. . . . a milieu worthy of the best of Len Deighton, if not John LeCarre. With those and other masters of the espionage genre making increasingly rare appearances these days, it’s good to have someone as skilled as Deverell arriving so stylishly on the scene." (Amazon.com—Dick Adler)

"Non-stop suspense and an intriguing plot that will keep you guessing until the end. 12 Drummers Drumming is a splendid first novel . . . Highly recommended." (Booked for Murder, Ltd. mystery book store—Mary Helen Becker)

An electrifying political thriller . . .a believable whirlwind international chase. (Huntsville Times)

"12 Drummers Drumming is a dynamite action thriller. It kept