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Starred Review. Tormented lives brutally intersect in Stroby's powerful thriller, the possible first in a new series to feature Sara Cross, the lone woman sheriff's deputy in Florida's St. Charles County. One night, Cross, a single mother who's coping with her son's leukemia and the remnants of a two-years-gone postdivorce fling with fellow deputy Billy Flynn, arrives on the edge of a cypress swamp where Flynn has just shot a 22-year-old black man from New Jersey allegedly fleeing a traffic stop. Sara tries to smother her still-simmering lust for no-good Billy, but her cop instincts drive her toward a dismaying truth that hurtles her into a violent showdown with an aging New Jersey contract killer stricken with a rare cancer. While relentlessly probing the eternal mystery of why bright and capable women fall for dangerous losers, Stroby (_The Heartbreak Lounge_) explores moral choices that leave his devastatingly real characters torn between doing nothing and risking everything. (Jan.)
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A young black man is killed after an apparently routine traffic stop; as the second officer at the scene, Deputy Sheriff Sara Cross’ job is to find out exactly what happened from her fellow deputy (and former lover) Billy Flynn. The dead man was armed, and a cache of weapons is found in the car. Internal Affairs clears Flynn of any wrongdoing, but Sara, a single parent already burdened by her son’s leukemia, profound loneliness, and continuing feelings for Flynn, isn’t so sure; she must find out if her former lover is a killer. Gone ’til November is rock-solid crime fiction that melds compelling characters, crisp writing, and a finely rendered portrait of Old Florida, the state’s thinly populated, less-storied interior. Sara and Morgan, an aging career criminal who has just been diagnosed with cancer, are Stroby’s best creations. Morgan is ruthless and resourceful, but he also has a quiet dignity and a streak of humanity that may have readers picturing actor Morgan Freeman. --Thomas Gaughan