Shoot the Woman First, Wallace Stroby
Shoot the Woman First, Wallace Stroby
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Shoot the Woman First

Author: Wallace Stroby

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/03/2013

Synopsis

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.

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

This isn’t going to do a thing to help Detroit's image. In this third book of the series, Crissa has traveled to the Motor City to take part in heisting a sizable amount of cash from a local drug kingpin. Despite Crissa’s caution and competence things take a bad turn. There’s more trouble on the way......more

Goodreads review by James

This is another excellent entry in Wallace Stroby's series featuring Crissa Stone. Stone is a career criminal and, as any number of people have suggested, she might well be the female version of Richard Stark's Parker. She's tough, smart and nimble--qualities that have served her well in each of her......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

I love Stroby’s writing – he’s a savvy and polished writer of noir crime fiction. I’ve worked my way through just about all the books he's written to date and have found him to be uniformly excellent. Well, in truth I found his first two books, the Harry Rane stories, to be probably a little less ac......more

Goodreads review by Richard

Crissa Stone is back at it again. She's reunited with a couple of old colleagues (including Charlie Glass from the check cashing heist in Cold Shot to the Heart) and is getting ready to rob a car-full of cash just sitting out in the middle of a Detroit street. But, once again, everything gets all sc......more

Quotes

“Professional 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.” RT Book Reviews (4½ stars)

“Stroby’s 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 necessitates…Stroby nails this taut, gripping contest between well-matched opponents.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“An easy score for professional thief Crissa Stone (Kings of Midnight, 2012, etc.) and her associates turns out to be anything but…Crissa’s third is another superior thriller—fast, tough and nasty—without a single extra sentence.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Stroby transports readers through his spare, believable dialog—making the story race by like a runaway train…Crissa is compelling, not unlike a female Parker…Elmore Leonard would approve.” Library Journal

“The shootouts have been staged in many a gangster—and western—tale. But when they’re done as skillfully as this, who cares?” Booklist

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