title: Hard Knocks: Charlie Fox Crime and Suspense Thriller Series
author: Zoe Sharp
description: <span><span>Zo&euml; Sharp became a freelance photojournalist in 1988 and wrote the first of her highly acclaimed Charlie Fox crime thrillers after receiving death-threat letters in the course of her work. Her novels have been nominated for multiple awards in the United States and the UK. She lives in the English Lake District. </span></span>
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  # HARD KNOCKS
  
  
  Charlie Fox book three
  
  
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  ## Zoë Sharp
  
  
    
  
  
  For Andy, who’s stopped me giving up altogether on occasions too numerous to
  mention . . .
  
  
    
  
  
  This book was carefully shepherded into the digital domain by the book-loving
  geeks at
  
  
  [www.ZACE-eBookConversion.com](http://www.ZACE-eBookConversion.com)
  
  
  Cover design by [www.NuDesign.co](http://www.NuDesign.co)
  
  
  [www.ZoeSharp.com](http://www.ZoeSharp.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HARD KNOCKS is the third in Zoë Sharp’s highly acclaimed Charlotte ‘Charlie’
  Fox crime thriller series, now available in e-format for the first time,
  complete with author’s notes, excerpt from the next Charlie Fox – FIRST DROP –
  and a bonus excerpt from Libby Fischer Hellmann’s PI Georgia Davis/Ellie
  Foreman novel, DOUBLEBACK.
  
  
  ‘Perhaps if the army had known what was inside me, what I would eventually
  turn into, they might not have been so keen to let me go.’
  
  
  Charlie really didn’t care who shot dead her traitorous ex-army c