Cold Shot to the Heart, Wallace Stroby
Cold Shot to the Heart, Wallace Stroby
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Cold Shot to the Heart

Author: Wallace Stroby

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2014

Synopsis

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.

About Wallace Stroby

Wallace Stroby is an award-winning journalist and a former editor at the Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey. His Crissa Stone novels have been optioned for development as a television series by Showtime. Stroby lives in New Jersey. 

About Coleen Marlo

Coleen Marlo has worked as a professional actor in film, television, and theater. She taught acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute for ten years and is a member of the Actors Studio. Marlo is also an accomplished voice artist, whom Publishers Weekly named Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2010. She won the Audio Award for Literary Fiction in 2011 and is an Earphones Award winner.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on August 16, 2015

Crissa Stone is the kind of woman who can steal your heart. She’ll probably also get any other valuables you have because she’s a professional thief. Her mentor/partner/lover Wayne is locked up in a Texas prison, and Crissa needs cash in a hurry to help grease the wheels for his parole. A high stakes......more

Goodreads review by James on January 23, 2013

If the late Richard Stark (Donald Westlake) and Christa Faust had ever collaborated on a novel, it probably would have sounded a lot like A Cold Shot to the Heart, which also means that it doubtless would have been a damn fine book. It's also a very hard book to review. This is one of those novels wh......more

Goodreads review by Richard on December 20, 2014

I recently read Wallace Stroby's standalone novel Gone 'Til November, and was disappointed in it, mostly because of the inefficiency of the lead female character, who proved to be non-essential to the story and seemed terrible at being a police officer once the action started popping off. So I was a......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on November 30, 2014

It's been a long time since I've read a new author I enjoy reading as much as I've enjoyed the reading (and writing) of Wallace Stroby. Just because I am who I am, I get a butterflies in my stomach when I think of reading a new author. I love reading the 'tried and true' authors who I know (relative......more

Quotes

“Just when you think that you can’t be surprised anymore, a writer like Wallace Stroby ups the ante.”

Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author

“This is an unstoppable novel. I wasn’t able to put it down.”

Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author

“Cold Shot to the Heart moves at a breakneck speed…Stroby’s sturdy plot is augmented by his intriguing look at how money corrupts and how even a crook can have a moral compass.”

Chicago Tribune

“Told in a taut style that doesn’t waste a single word, Stroby’s latest features an interesting anti-heroine…[A] straightforward story of two criminals on a collision course.”

RT Book Reviews

“Another fast, taut winner from Stroby. As for Crissa, she may be crime fiction’s best bad girl ever.”

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A compelling blend of greed, violence, and the need to survive that will appeal to noir aficionados.”

Library Journal

“Stroby pits a resourceful crook against a ruthless killer in this well-crafted crime novel…The action builds to the inevitable and exciting showdown.”

Publishers Weekly

“This is a raw, hard-edged, noirish novel, dark and violent. It’s good, too…Stroby has been called a nascent Crumley or Pelecanos. He shares their sense that cynicism is the last post left to a romantic.”

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