Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns — Diana Deverell

FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd confronts a Warsaw crime boss, a New York City bounty hunter, and a Homeland Security agent cowboying in the middle of the North Sea, among others. She solves crimes ranging from human trafficking to health care fraud, illegal sports betting, nuclear smuggling, and more. Foiling devious plots from Silicon Valley to Ulan Bator, Dawna shuts down not only the FBI's most wanted but also any crook fool enough to mess with her family.

Eleven of these stories appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. The twelfth, longest, and newest is available only in this collection. “Latin Groove,” takes Dawna back to FBI basics -- bank robbery -- and her home court of Texas. She confronts a bad girl who's sharp as a pistol and carrying one too.

“Boot Scoot” and “Texas Two-Step,” both nominated for the annual Macavity best short story awards by members of Mystery Readers International, are included in these tales spanning a dozen years of Dawna's FBI career.