Wallace Stroby
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After Deputy Sara Ross discovers that her ex-partner fatally shot a man during a routine traffic stop and the details do not support his story that the man had pulled a gun, Sara must follow the truth no matter where it leads in order to protect herself and her son.
Author
Series
Crissa Stone novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Determined to secure her mentor and lover's parole by fixing an illegal card game, career criminal Crissa Stone plots a daring robbery that goes wrong when one of her crew shoots a player with connections to an equally desperate hit man.
Author
Series
Crissa Stone novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's been a year since professional thief Crissa Stone last pulled a job, and she's spent that time under the radar, very carefully not drawing attention to herself. That kind of life is safe, but it's boring, and it's lonely, and it's not very lucrative. So when Crissa starts to get antsy--and low on funds--she agrees to act as a thief-for-hire, partnering with a wealthy art collector to steal a truckload of plundered Iraqi artifacts before they're...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Joette Harper's life brings new meaning to the phrase "paycheck to paycheck." Struggling to afford her mother's sky-high medical bills and also keep the lights on in her trailer home, Joette needs a break. So, when she spies a bag full of money amongst the wreckage of a fiery car accident, she knows she can't just let it be. Inside is a bounty better than she could have dreamed--just shy of $300,000 in neatly stacked hundreds and fifties. Enough to...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An ex-mercenary and an embattled journalist find themselves unlikely allies against a corrupt defense contractor in this "noir for modern times" (Ace Atkins). Ray Devlin is retired, living a simple life off the grid in Florida, when a visit from an old colleague stirs some bad memories--and ends with a gunshot. Soon Devlin is forced to again face a past he'd hoped to leave behind, as a member of a mercenary force that helped put a brutal South American...
Author
Series
Crissa Stone novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a final big score that will reunite her with her loved ones and allow her to live an honest life, Crissa Stone is forced to flee when her partners in crime kill each other, a situation that is complicated by an ex-mobster's efforts to claim a former associate's hidden millions.
Author
Series
Crissa Stone novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A half million dollars in drug proceeds, guarded by three men with automatic weapons. For Wallace Stroby's determined heroine, 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 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...
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life...