Dirty Bop to Blighty: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #14

By Diana Deverell

Her BS detector clicking madly, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd discovers a rat on the Danish ferry sailing from Norway to England.

 

Not a stinky rodent, but a completely odorless Homeland Security Agent with a hidden agenda.

 

Unlike the eighteen East European cops attending the shipboard conference, the agent organizing it has no scent, no humor, and no bling. Not a partner Dawna automatically trusts.

 

The agent deserves her suspicion. Though the conference deals with illegal Chinese migration through the cops' home countries, the venue and the program don't promote education on that topic.

 

What's the agent's real goal? And why is Dawna's partner keeping her in the dark?

 

He must believe she'll oppose his plan. Which means she has to stop him now.

 

Or risk finding herself, the eighteen cops, and fifteen hundred civilian passengers at the mercy of a cowboying federal agent.

 

A Derringer and Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell ferries you to the middle of the North Sea on a minicruise heading for disaster.

 

Buy "Dirty Bop to Blighty: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story" today and sail on the Queen of Scandinavia to a dramatic climax.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sorrel Press
• Release date: Apr 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393862109

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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