Shoot the Woman First
- Author Wallace Stroby
- Narrator Coleen Marlo
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 3 December 2013
- Run Time 6 hours and 38 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction.
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What to expect
Half a million dollars in drug proceeds, guarded by three men with automatic weapons—for professional thief Crissa Stone and her team, stealing it was the easy part. But when the split goes awry in a blaze of gunfire, Crissa finds herself on the run with a duffel bag full of stolen cash, bound by a promise to deliver part of the take to the needy family of one of her slain partners.
In pursuit are the drug kingpin's lethal lieutenants and a former Detroit cop with his own deadly agenda. They think the money's there for the taking, for whoever finds her first. But Crissa doesn't plan to give it up without a fight, even as her mission of mercy puts her and a young child in mortal danger, with forces on both sides of the law closing in. After all, a debt is a debt—even if it has to be paid in blood.
With Shoot the Woman First, Wallace Stroby delivers another powerful, lyrical novel, his third featuring one of the most original female characters in hard-boiled fiction.
Critics Review
u201cProfessional thief and stone-cold killer Crissa Stone is back, lining up another caper in burned-out Detroit. Her long-buried conscience leads her further into danger and, perhaps, the end of it all.u201d
u201cStrobyu2019s Crissa Stone is emerging as one of the more compelling female criminals in mystery fiction. In her third outing she once again displays bravery, cunning, loyalty, and a big heart matched by a willingness to embrace the violence her lifestyle necessitatesu2026Stroby nails this taut, gripping contest between well-matched opponents.u201d
u201cAn easy score for professional thief Crissa Stone (Kings of Midnight, 2012, etc.) and her associates turns out to be anything butu2026Crissau2019s third is another superior thrilleru2014fast, tough and nastyu2014without a single extra sentence.u201d
nu201cStroby transports readers through his spare, believable dialogu2014making the story race by like a runaway trainu2026Crissa is compelling, not unlike a female Parkeru2026Elmore Leonard would approve.u201d
nu201cThe shootouts have been staged in many a gangsteru2014andnwesternu2014tale. But when theyu2019re done as skillfully as this, who cares?u201d
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