Steve's only 15 when his favorite lead singer dies. That loss makes him fear another. Older brother Tom is in the army, deployed to a war zone an ocean away. In only sixty days, Tom's due home, but will he make it alive? And how can a kid brother help a soldier stay safe? The only tool Steve has is the music they both love. This short story remembers the death of the Doors' Jim Morrison in 1971, but the aching fear for a loved one fighting on foreign soil is timeless. Included as a bonus is the first chapter from MURDER, KEN KESEY, AND ME, Diana Deverell's comic mystery featuring another mind-blowing sixties icon, one who lived well past the age of twenty-seven. This edition of "Heart Failure" is the uncut original. A condensed version was included by Danish publisher Alinea in their series about "the 27 Club," an online supplement to the English textbook A PIECE OF CAKE, 9.
Other books by Diana Deverell
Her latest release is Lay
Bare the Lie, the sixth book in the Nora Dockson legal thriller series,
featuring a woman ex-con turned appeals lawyer. The first five books in order
are Help Me Nora, Right the Wrong, Hear
My Plea, Judge Me Not, and Open the
Door. “Mercy Find Me”, a story spun off the series, was a finalist for the
2019 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction and is now available as an ebook
short story.
Diana debuted as a published writer in 1998 with 12 Drummers Drumming, her first international thriller. The latest thriller in the series is China Box. The four-book series spans seventeen years in the career of her heroine, State Department intelligence analyst Casey Collins.
Diana has also written the political thriller Bitch Out of Hell starring security pro Bella Hinton and told in Bella’s own salty words. Bella is the heroine of “Payback is a Bitch,” named by Otto Penzler as a distinguished mystery story of 2018. Before shining in stories of her own, Bella played a supporting role in several international thrillers taking place from the Cold War to the present.
Diana’s published short fiction includes seventeen
stories starring FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd. All are available as ebook
short stories. Dawna’s early adventures are collected in Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns and she plays a
supporting role in Bitch Out of Hell
and three international thrillers.
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