So yes, as listed under Currently Reading on my webpage, I am still reading Subversives! I am now more than 65% of the way through the book, Reagan just became governor of California, so the battles rages more fiercely! But while reading that, I am still reading mysteries, and just finished Book 14 for 2014, Kings of Midnight from Wallace Stroby.
Kings of Midnight is the second book in the Crissa Stone series, and in it , Crissa, the criminal you root for, is battling to recover, some of the millions, that now dead mob boss Joey Dios hid from a robbery thirty-five years ago!! Crissa needs the money after the profits of her latest heist, were lessened by a crook that was trying to launder the money for her. Crissa needs to get back some of that money and maybe make one big score to help her boyfriend get out of prison, and to get her daughter back. So Crissa, is all ears when Jimmy Peaches sets her up with Benny Roth, a lower level member of Joey’s crew, who just may know where Joey hid the money. Only problem is that other mobsters are on the trail of the money too!
The book’s plot seemed rather simplistic, but Stroby’s writing style, and the characters he creates keep the action moving, and the pages turning right up until the last page of the book. Crissa is a character, that while a criminal, you still can root for her to come out on top, and this time , well actually like the last, she’s up against some pretty tough mobsters! So it was a quick fun read, and I’m looking forward to moving onto the next caper!!
Here’s what others say about Stroby’s books….
“Just when you think that you can’t be surprised anymore, a writer like Wallace Stroby ups the ante” – Laura Lippman
“Another fast, taut, winner from Stroby. As for Crissa, she may be crime fiction’s best bad girl ever” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Cold Shot to the Heart.
So check out the Crissa Stone series!
