Kings of Midnight

Crissa Stone is a career criminal who has pulled a number ofimpressive heists by knowing how to keep her mouth shut and her temper incheck. Still, as good as she is, she wants to get out of the life. All sheneeds is one last big score, enough to bribe her lover’s way out on parole, setup a safe and stable new life, and get her daughter back. But things keepgoing wrong, like when her last two partners lost their cool and fought overthe take instead of walking away $150,000 richer. The mess they made of the joband each other has put her on the run again. She’s not the only one. Benny Roth, a former mobster, hasbeen straight for years, but now he has his own problems. A face from the pasthas popped up to tell him that boss Joey Dio is finally dead and to ask aboutthe $5 million that Joey was rumored to have stashed away years ago.Benny denies knowing anything about it and claims he’s out of the business.That may be what he says, but he’s willing to risk almost everything for onelast shot. With the law and mobsters on the lookout and $5 million on the line, it isn’t long before Crissa and Benny find themselves on acollision course that neither of them can avoid. This hard-boiled world, wherethe stakes—and the risks—are always high, unfolds at breakneck speed in Kingsof Midnight, another darkand thrilling masterwork of crime fiction from Wallace Stroby.