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.
submitted by Ali Kayn
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)
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.)
See review of First Drop
October-November 2013
First Drop is part of a thrillers story bundle available at a special price at storybundle.com
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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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