Shoot the Woman First (Crissa Stone Novels, Book 3)

[Read by Coleen Marlo]

With Shoot the Woman First, Wallace Stroby delivers another powerful, lyrical novel, his third featuring Crissa Stone -- one of the most original female characters in hard-boiled fiction.

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.