Organ Trade Off: A Noir Short Story
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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?
A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell brings you the darkest story she's ever written.
"… 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 trip to the seamier side of Harrisburg, PA.
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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Organ Trade Off - Diana Deverell
ORGAN TRADE OFF
A Noir Short Story
By Diana Deverell
Published by Sorrel Press
www.sorrelpress.com
Table of Contents
ORGAN TRADE OFF: A Noir Short Story by Diana Deverell
PRAISE FOR DIANA DEVERELL’S FICTION
Organ Trade Off
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NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
OTHER EBOOKS BY DIANA DEVERELL
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
PRAISE FOR DIANA DEVERELL’S FICTION
Nora Dockson legal thrillers
Lay Bare the Lie, the sixth and newest Nora Dockson legal thriller, "tops all the others in so many ways. There’s a gripping I-didn’t-see-that-coming plot, the relationships among the continuing characters are evolving, and the descriptions of Oregon and Washington are wonderful.
The author is a master at putting you inside a scene so vividly you’d swear you had actually lived through it. I’ve never been to Pendleton, but I feel I could walk down a street there and recognize everything. Nora, Hunter, and Patty-Jean are true-to-life characters that we’d like to spend more time with.
(Amazon reader review)
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 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)
Help Me Nora is "a compelling gritty novel. I could not