A Mystery Lover's Bookshelf, April 2012

It’s impossible to read a Wallace Stroby book without hearing your favorite Bruce Springsteen song playing in the back of your head. The streets  and characters which Springsteen sang about are brothers to the ones that Stroby, a lifelong resident of New Jersey, writes about.  This is particularly true in COLD SHOT TO THE HEART;  a gang assembled in Jersey busts up a high stakes poker game in Fort Lauderdale, where thing go very, very wrong. For gang leader and career criminal Crissa Stone, the issue is whether the heist went awry, or was actually a well-planned assassination in disguise.