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Crime Series:

Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles

Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr (Burglar)

Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder

Lilian Jackson Braun's Qwilleran and Koko (Cat Who)

Lee Child's Jack Reacher

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum

Janet Evanovich's Alex Barnaby

Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg's O'Hare/Fox series

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone

Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher

Kerry Greenwood's Corinna Chapman

Wendy Hornsby's Maggie MacGowen

Tanya Huff's Vicki Nelson (Blood)

Val McDermid's Kate Brannigan

Shane Maloney's Murray Whelan

Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski

J D Robb's Eve Dallas and Roarke

Dorothy Sayers'Lord Peter Wimsey

Michael W. Sherer's Blake Sanders

Zoe Sharp's Charlie Fox

John Sandford's Lucas Davenport

John Sandford's Virgil Flowers

John Sandford's Kidd & LuEllen



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Val McDermid's Kate Brannigan PI series page reading order and synopsis; 160x480

J D Robb (Nora Roberts) Eve Dallas (In Death) series page reading order and synopsis; 160x480

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone private investigator series page for reading order and synopsis; 160x480

Zoë Sharp

British Women Can Kick Ass:

Charlie Fox, Woman with the Moves

Charlie Fox is a woman who lives with violence and with the aftermath of violence. In the opening pages of Killer Instinct, Charlie is revealed clad in black jeans and a leather jacket (as glamorous as she gets), riding her bike and throwing a

Charlie starts the series as a teacher of self-defence whose background includes special forces training. She is reticent about her Army history, with good reason. In Killer Instinct she becomes embroiled in a series of rape-and-murders while dealing with a new job as a bouncer at a club.

Like the best of crime and suspense stories, Killer Instinct has a firm sense of place, and introduces the readers to a fictional life inhabiting a real location -- Lancaster, in North West England.

Sharp is not afraid to make her female hero vulnerable, vincible, fallible and haunted. Tough-guys have traditionally been one drink away from oblivion, and Charlie has to handle the threats from her own ghosts as well as the threats from without.

Zoe Sharp and Val McDermid (whose series includes Kate Brannigan) give us crime-fighting women the way the Brits do best -- with a bit of agro, and a walk on the wild side of the land of pomp and elegance.


Summary:

Killer Instinct

Riot Act

Hard Knocks

First Drop

Road Kill

Second Shot

Third Strike

Fourth Day

Fifth Victim

Die Easy

Absence of Light (Novella)


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Killer Instinct, Zoe Sharp

Killer Instinct

Charlie Fox is making a living teaching self defence. The rape and murder of a female clubber is cause for concern to her pupils, and unfortunately for Charlie she and the victim have a bit of history. As the investigation mounts Charlie finds herself and her home a target, but is it her connection with a women's refuge, with the club where she is the newest bouncer, or something more?

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Riot Act, Zoe Sharp

Riot Act

Charlie is housesitting in a poor, largely Asian area and earning her living working at Atilla's Gym. She cannot escape being drawn into the violent animosity between the youth of the local area and that of a nearby estate. As her life becomes complicated with local crime, vigilantes and a questionable group of 'security specialists', Charlie is reunited with one of the people who failed her during her army days.

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Hard Knocks, Zoe Sharp

Hard Knocks

Still recovering from injuries, Charlie accepts a request from Sean that she investigate a bodyguarding school that has relocated to Germany. For over-achiever Charlie, being asked to perform somewhere in the middle of the pack is going to be more of a challenge than 5 km 5 a.m. runs. She discovers and interest in and aptitude for close personal protection.

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First Drop, Zoe Sharp

First Drop

Charlie travels to Florida to protect the teenage son of a computer programmer. She rapidly finds herself on her own with her principal who glories in his sullen, obnoxious adolescence in a strange country with little more than a SIG Sauer, one magazine of bullets and a small wad of cash. (The first of the series to be released in the U.S.)

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October-November 2013

First Drop is part of a thrillers story bundle available at a special price at storybundle.com

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Road Kill, Zoe Sharp

Road Kill

Charlie steps in when one of her friends is killed in a motorcycle crash.

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Second Shot, Zoe Sharp

Second Shot

Charlie is shot and must confront her vulnerability while protecting a four-year-old child and her mother from an ex-boyfriend.

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Third Strike, Zoe Sharp

Third Strike

Charlie is based in New York with a new boss when her father finds himself in trouble.

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Fourth Day, Zoe Sharp

Fourth Day

Charlie volunteers to go undercover in a Californian cult and must resist the charismatic leader.

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Fifth Victim, Zoe Sharp

Fifth Victim

Charlie must foil a kidnapping plot on Long Island while unravelling her own complicated personal life.

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Die Easy, Zoe Sharp

Die Easy

Set in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Charlie and Sean find a celebrity fund raiser assignment turns into a robbery and hostage situation.

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Absence of Light (Novella), Zoe Sharp

Absence of Light (Novella)

Charlie heads out to the site of a major earthquake as a security advisor.

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