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Wallace Stroby


Born
Long Branch, New Jersey, The United States
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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Wallace Stroby is an award-winning journalist and the author of the novels
Cold Shot to the Heart, Gone 'Til November, The Heartbreak Lounge and The Barbed-Wire Kiss..

A Long Branch, N.J., native, he's a lifelong resident of the Jersey Shore. "The Barbed-Wire Kiss," which The Washington Post called "a scorching first novel ...full of attention to character and memory and, even more, to the neighborhoods of New Jersey," was a finalist for the 2004 Barry Award for Best First Novel.

A graduate of Rutgers University, Stroby was an editor at the Star-Ledger of Newark, Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper, for 13 years. ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 4,048 ratings · 750 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors
Cold Shot to the Heart (Cri...
3.70 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions
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Kings of Midnight (Crissa S...
3.92 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
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Gone 'til November
3.56 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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Heaven's a Lie
3.83 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions
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Shoot the Woman First (Cris...
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Some Die Nameless
3.80 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions
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The Devil's Share (Crissa S...
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Lovers in the Cold
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Series by Wallace Stroby

Cold Shot to the Heart Kings of Midnight Shoot the Woman First The Devil's Share
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The Barbed-Wire Kiss The Heartbreak Lounge
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“Across the intersection he could see the crumbling blue-green facade of the Palace Amusements building, the grinning ten-foot-high face on its north wall smiling out on empty streets and vacant lots. The arcade entrances were covered with plywood; broken neon tubing hung from the walls. He thought of the hours he had spent there as a kid, playing pinball, firing the real .22s in the shooting gallery, riding the bumper cars. It hurt to look at it now.”
― Wallace Stroby, The Barbed-Wire Kiss: A Novel
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“She worked the dead bolt first. She slid a wrench into the keyhole, twisted it to keep tension, then used the pick to rake the inside of the cylinder. When she felt the pins slip, she turned the wrench farther. The lock clicked open. The knob was easier. When she was done, she shut the penlight off, opened the door, felt it catch against a chain. She”
― Wallace Stroby, Cold Shot to the Heart
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