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Crete Robbers: A Casey Collins Short Story

By Diana Deverell
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Retired intelligence analyst Casey Collins takes a pre-season package tour to the Greek island of Crete.

 

Her bargain vacation should be a perfect way to escape February's chilly darkness, soak up Mediterranean sunshine, and study Minoan history and culture.

 

But she runs into two problems. First, she finds that none of the other tour group members will converse in her native language. And they don't understand her broken version of theirs.

 

Luckily, she doesn't have to endure two weeks of the silent treatment.

 

Her tour guide Vassilis is fluent in English. And also happy to share his passionate and patriotic love of all things Greek.

 

Her second problem is that today he also shares the unwelcome news that a precious Cretan artifact has disappeared from a local dig site.

 

Vassilis believes the thief is a member of Casey's group. A phony tourist ideally placed to smuggle the item out of Greece when the tour ends.

 

If Vassilis tries to identify a suspect he can name to the police, the thief may destroy the artifact to avoid arrest. If Vassilis names an innocent person, the tour operator will fire him for poor customer service.

 

Vassilis sees no way to stop yet another priceless Greek cultural treasure disappearing into a private foreign collection.

 

His heart is breaking.

 

And Casey's is breaking for him.

 

His hands are tied.

 

But hers aren't.

 

Can she identify the thief without being noticed?

 

A long shot, but for Vassilis's sake, she has to try.

 

A Macavity Award finalist acclaimed for her "sharp story telling" (Publishers Weekly), Diana Deverell takes you and Casey Collins to the sun-drenched island of Crete to catch a thief.

 

Buy "Crete Robbers: A Casey Collins Short Story" and enjoy tropical weather, Cretan cuisine, and local beer and spirits with the retired heroine of a suspenseful series of non-stop international thrillers.

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About 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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