It was a start.
ALSO BY WALLACE STROBY
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The Heartbreak Lounge
The Barbed-Wire Kiss
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
COLD SHOT TO THE HEART. Copyright © 2011 by Wallace Stroby. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stroby, Wallace.
Cold shot to the heart / Wallace Stroby.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-56025-6
1. Female offenders—Fiction. 2. Card games—Fiction. 3. Ex-convicts—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3619.T755C65 2011
813'.6—dc22
2010037538
First Edition: January 2011
eISBN 978-1-4299-8969-5
First Minotaur Books eBook Edition: January 2011
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