Cold Shot to the Heart

  It was a start.

  ALSO BY WALLACE STROBY

  Gone ’til November

  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