DANCING
WITH DAWNA
FBI
Special Agent Dawna Shepherd played a supporting role in my international
thriller NIGHT ON FIRE. She so captured my imagination that I've
described her later exploits in eleven short stories published in Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Back
issues are available from
www.themysteryplace.com.
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“Dubstep”
How is a long-time auto insurance fraudster escaping
detection by sophisticated FBI sleuthing software? Dawna's efforts to
answer that question draw her into the nefarious activities of wily
Clayton D. Cooper and his criminal family. Will the good old boy sucker
our girl? Find out in the April 2012 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Read an excerpt
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“Dirty Bop to Blighty”
Tapped to help out with a conference on board the ferry Queen of
Scandinavia, Dawna falls into an undercover Homeland Security operation
and finds only she can avert disaster at sea. The story appeared in the
September 2010 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Read an excerpt
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“Silicon
Valley Tango”
Why
- and how - is an unknown hacker cyber-stalking an obscure software
engineer working in the Bay Area? Not a typical problem to face FBI
Special Agent Dawna Shepherd who usually goes in for low-tech
crime-solving, except that the woman whose life and livelihood are on the
line is her little sister Bettijean. The story appeared in the July/August
2009 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Read an excerpt
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“Dallas
Hoe-Down”
Having discovered that former college cheerleaders and athletes make up
big pharma's hottest sales force, Dawna Shepherd poses as a wannabe
medical equipment rep in order to track down the company culprit who's
gulling staff into using illegal marketing techniques - with highly
profitable and near fatal results. The story appeared in the September
2007 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Read an excerpt
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“Mongol
Mash”
Dawna contends with Mongolian bureaucrats and mysterious
bad guys in her struggle to keep a female athlete fit to play in a
championship basketball game in Ulan Bataar. She needs help - but where
will she find it on the Trans-Mongolian Railway? The story appeared in
the March 2006 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Read an excerpt
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“Hazmat
Heel-and-Toe”
Dawna teams up with a trucker to nail a rogue DOT safety inspector who's
been extorting money from drivers hauling hazardous materials through New
Jersey. The third member of their team contributes precious little to the
effort! The story appeared in the June 2004 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's
Mystery Magazine, accompanied by A Conversation with Diana Deverell.
Read an excerpt
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“Texas Two-Step” - Macavity Award Nominee!
March Madness strikes Texas hard - even harder when the Big Dance is set
for San Antonio. With the Final Four happening on her own turf, Dawna
naturally scheduled her leave so she could be there. So she's ready to
help out when a former teammate turned coach asks Dawna to investigate a
possible betting scandal involving a key woman player. The story appeared
in the February 2003 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Read an excerpt
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“Boot
Scoot” - Macavity Award Nominee!
Dawna is in her native Texas when her vacation is interrupted by a bounty
hunter - one dead set on arresting an old family friend. The story
appeared in the October 2002 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Read an excerpt
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“Hokey
Pokey Bucuresti”
She
laughed when her fellow FBI agents on the Human Trafficking Task Force
asked her to help them run a sting operation out of Bucuresti. Dawna's
gutsy but not stupid. How's she supposed to pass herself off in Romania as
a potential sex slave? But then again, how can she allow baby-faced cadet
Stela Dragomir to face Vlad and the other bad guys all alone? The story
appeared in the March 2002 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Read an excerpt
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“Polonaise”
After Budapest, Dawna Shepherd finds herself in Warsaw, bodyguarding a key
witness in the trial of a Polish mobster. "Polonaise" appeared in the
September 2001 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Read an excerpt
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“Hungarian
Dance No. 5”
Dawna Shepherd, a former college basketball star turned FBI Agent, made
her first appearance in the November 2000 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's
Mystery Magazine. The story takes place in present-day Budapest on the
eve of a new training session at the FBI’s International Law Enforcement
Academy.
Read an excerpt
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