Appeals lawyer Nora Dockson might be able to free Silvia Simon from prison. But why should she try?
An ex-con herself, Nora broke free from her trailer park roots and went to law school. She works only for convicted felons.
Silvia, a young single mother, insists she's not guilty of arson-murder. But investigators determined only she could have started the fire. The prosecutor argued that Silvia set it to kill her daughter.
Was he wrong? Or is Silvia lying?
Trying to make sense of what happened, Nora ends up at the murky junction where arson myths and bad-mother stereotypes collide with modern science.
Piecing together Silvia's story, Nora discovers more of her own . . .
A Macavity Award-nominee acclaimed for "sharp storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell has "a gift that grabs the reader so one cares about every character in the story" (reader review).
In Judge Me Not, Diana brings you an intriguing heroine, a suspenseful plot, and an entertaining supporting cast. "A great character, a great series—I highly recommend it to people." (Stephen Campbell, CrimeFiction.FM)
Nora Dockson Legal Thrillers
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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