Half a million dollars in drug proceeds, guarded by three men with automatic weapons for professional thief Crissa Stone and her team, stealing it was the easy part. But when the split goes awry in a blaze of gunfire, Crissa finds herself on the run with a duffel bag full of stolen cash, bound by a promise to deliver part of the take to the needy family of one of her slain partners.

In pursuit are the drug kingpin s lethal lieutenants and a former Detroit cop with his own deadly agenda. They think the money s there for the taking, for whoever finds her first. But Crissa doesn t plan to give it up without a fight, even as her mission of mercy puts her and a young child in mortal danger, with forces on both sides of the law closing in. After all, a debt is a debt even if it has to be paid in blood.

With "Shoot the Woman First," Wallace Stroby delivers another powerful, lyrical novel, his third featuring one of the most original female characters in hard-boiled fiction.

Book four in The Hunted series

FBI agent Tyler Reed trusts only facts and evidence, until the day a beautiful blonde delivers a life-saving warning based on nothing more than a vision.

Five years later, the mysterious Morgan Standish has used her talents to help Tyler and the FBI bring down countless criminals. Still, Tyler knows next to nothing about her. She contacts him by phone and by some sort of psychic connection he s not prepared to admit exists but has not shown herself once. Until now.

Morgan s gift may let her see things others can t, but it comes at a price. Getting too close to anyone is dangerous, especially the gorgeous, moody Special Agent Reed. For she s seen the future: If they meet again too soon, an innocent could be lost.

But when Tyler s latest case forces Morgan out of hiding, she is the one thrust into the path of a serial killer, the Psychic Slayer, who will stop at nothing to protect the secrets only Morgan can see.