Cold Shot to the Heart
- Author Wallace Stroby
- Narrator Coleen Marlo
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 15 February 2014
- Run Time 6 hours and 53 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
Crissa Stone is a career criminal. A complete pro, she never works too close to her New York City home, rarely signs on with the same crew, and never rushes a job. These are the rules that have kept her from getting caught, from doing time. They’re the rules her mentor and lover taught her, rules he didn’t follow as closely as he should have. Now he’s up for parole, and Crissa needs to come up with some real money real fast to help grease the wheels.
Word is there’s an illegal card game set for less than a week from now. The take? As much as seven figures. Desperate, Crissa slaps together a plan and a crew.
It’s robbery, not murder. But when one of her crew loses his cool and they have to abandon the plan, she catches the attention of Eddie the Saint. A hit man recently released from prison, Eddie is no less of a pro than Crissa, and he could use the work—not to mention all that money.
Wallace Stoby, one of the most talented writers working in crime fiction today, has written a tight, propulsive story that will hold readers captive until well after all the crooks have fled the scene.
Critics Review
u201cJust when you think that you canu2019t be surprised anymore,na writer like Wallace Stroby ups the ante.u201d
u201cThis is an unstoppable novel. I wasnu2019t able to put it down.u201d
u201cCold Shot to the Heart moves at a breakneck speedu2026Strobyu2019s sturdy plot is augmented by his intriguing look at how money corrupts and how even a crook can have a moral compass.u201d
u201cTold in a taut style that doesnu2019t waste ansingle word, Strobyu2019s latest features an interesting anti-heroineu2026[A]nstraightforward story of two criminals on a collision course.u201d
u201cAnother fast, taut winner from Stroby. As fornCrissa, she may be crime fictionu2019s best bad girl ever.u201d
u201cA compelling blend of greed, violence, and the need to survive that will appeal to noir aficionados.u201d
u201cStroby pits a resourceful crook against anruthless killer in this well-crafted crime novelu2026The action builds to theninevitable and exciting showdown.u201d
u201cThis is a raw, hard-edged, noirish novel, darknand violent. Itu2019s good, toou2026Stroby has been called a nascent Crumley ornPelecanos. He shares their sense that cynicism is the last post left to anromantic.u201d
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