In the seventh thriller featuring cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington and his old sidekick NYPD Lt. Dino Bacchetti, the prolific and urbane Woods is at the top of his consistently bestselling form. In the middle of a New York City blizzard, Thad...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $24.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-399-14777-7
This second thriller in the series Woods inaugurated with Orchid Beach
starts with a bang—a literal one. While series heroine Holly Barker, a former military police commander turned police chief of smalltown Orchid Beach, Fla., waits at the...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-14868-2
In recent Woods bestsellers like Cold Paradise, N.Y.P.D. detective-turned-PI Stone Barrington has gone upscale in lifestyle, international in expertise. This time, mogul John Bartholomew hires Stone to fly to London and persuade his niece, Erica, to
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-14929-0
In Woods's 24th novel—his third in the Holly Barker series (after Orchid Blues)—the prolific bestselling novelist revisits savvy, sexy ex-MP officer (and her dog, Daisy), now police chief of the small Florida east coast town of...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-14982-5
Woods's new mystery is as sleek and engaging as the upper-class lifestyle of its appealing hero, ex-cop–cum–lawyer–cum–private investigator Stone Barrington. Woods (Blood Orchid) rewards Stone (and readers) by bringing...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15090-6
In this humdrum political thriller, the latest in the Will Lee series (The Run, etc.), William Henry Lee IV, former senator from Georgia, has graduated to the presidency of the United States. He's living comfortably in the White House with his...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15151-4
It's double the pleasure and double the fun as Woods brings series character Holly Barker, chief of the Orchid Beach, Fla., police department (of Orchid Blues
, etc.), onstage to co-star with PI Stone Barrington (of Dirty Work
, etc.) in his...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15220-7
A recently demoted police detective gets caught up in the privileged and often dangerous world of 1939 Hollywood in Wood's solid 29th novel. His first night back in uniform, Rick Barron witnesses a car accident in which Clete Barrow, a drunk...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15251-1
Woods's latest winner opens with a banner week for ex-cop turned sophisticated New York lawyer Stone Barrington: he lands a $50,000 retainer from fabulously wealthy Billy Bob Barnstormer and a date with a beautiful, blonde U.S. Attorney for New...
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Stuart Woods, Author , read by Tony Roberts. Penguin Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305728-4
Fans of Woods's ex-cop turned lawyer, Stone Barrington, will not be disappointed in this latest entry in the series. This time out, Stone becomes involved with a loud-talking Texan improbably named Billy Bob Barnstormer. It isn't long...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-399-15325-9
Having ditched her Orchid Beach, Fla., police chief post, returning supersleuth Holly Barker opts for a CIA career in Woods's by-the-numbers thriller, the fourth in the Barker series (Blood Orchid
). Barely through basic training at a highly...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-399-15342-6
Bestseller Woods's tepid 12th Stone Barrington novel finds the New York lawyer taking a much-needed working vacation after the deadly trials and tribulations of the action-packed Two-Dollar Bill
(2005). Stone has inherited a house on the island
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-399-15368-6
At the start of this taut tale of a very bad woman out to fleece a very good man from bestseller Woods, Santa Fe, N.Mex., lawyer Ed Eagle wakes up one morning with a terrible hangover and a missing wife. After a few phone calls, it turns out that...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-15410-2
Smooth-talking New York lawyer Stone Barrington, along with his sidekick, NYPD detective Dino Bacchetti, get dragged into an impossible case in Stone's entertaining 13th outing (after Dark Harbor
). Stone's bosses at the high-class law firm...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15444-7
Stone Barrington and Holly Barker, Woods's longtime investigative and romantic duo, search for a rogue CIA agent on a beautiful tropical island in this low-voltage thriller. At the request of U.S. President Will Lee, Barrington and Barker...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-399-15469-0
In this tepid sequel to 2004's The Prince of Beverly Hills
, bestseller Woods revisits the late 1940s but fails to realistically evoke the era of the HUAC hearings, Hollywood blacklists and the waning days of big studios and the star system. Demoted
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-399-15490-4
Bestseller Woods's third thriller to feature prominent New Mexican attorney Ed Eagle (after Short Straw
and Santa Fe Rules
) opens with a bang, but soon devolves into a fairly predictable cat-and-mouse game. Ed and his girlfriend, actress...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-399-15515-4
Edgar-winner Woods's 15th Stone Barrington novel (after Shoot Him if He Runs
) finds the familiar cast of characters up to their usual antics: dining at Elaine's, drinking expensive liquor and having fantastic sex. Stone's pal CIA...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-399-15547-5
In bestseller Woods’s uninspired sixth Will Lee thriller (after Capital Crimes
), the incumbent U.S. president, William Jefferson Lee, faces a series of crises in an election year: his vice president has died during surgery; a nuclear warhead...
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Stuart Woods, Author Putnam $25.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-399-15578-9
Never one to avoid a glamorous vacation spot, Stone Barrington travels to Key West, Fla., in this easygoing entry in bestseller Woods's long-running series (Hot Mahogany
, etc.) to feature the New York cop turned lawyer. Stone is supposed to...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15601-4
Bestseller Woods piles on the coincidences in his modestly entertaining fifth thriller to feature CIA agent Holly Barker (after Iron Orchid
). When Holly returns home to Orchid Beach, Fla., where she was once chief of police, she's reunited...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-399-15611-3
At the start of bestseller Woods's entertaining 17th Stone Barrington novel (after Loitering with Intent
), the handsome New York lawyer smoothly picks up Carrie Cox, an aspiring actress who's recently moved from Georgia to New York City,...
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Stuart Woods, Author . Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15644-1
Stone Barrington continues to enjoy good food, good drink, and good sex provided by an eager succession of beautiful women in bestseller Woods's smooth 18th novel to feature the New York City attorney (after Kisser
). Unstable ex-wife Dolce...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017666-2
It may be his fifth novel in three years, but this slickly entertaining suspenser displays Woods at the top of his game with no signs of flagging. A sizable supporting cast of paparazzi-challenged beautiful people share the action as Stone...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-018368-4
Stone Barrington, the lawyer and investigator featured in Dirt and Choke, returns for another twist- and sex-filled romp, which finds him matching wits with a Caribbean island politico in a fight to save the life of a beautiful yacht-owning widow....
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (325p) ISBN 978-0-06-019181-8
After a string of successes based on the escapades of the redoubtable Stone Barrington, Woods (Swimming to Catalina) shifts to a female protagonist in this police procedural, with mostly smooth and satisfying results. Woods's new heroine is Holly...
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Stuart Woods, Author $25 (332p) ISBN 978-0-06-019182-5
There's an adequate crime tale embedded somewhere among the excess of upscale home, fashion and dining commentary here. Woods's (Orchid Beach) new novel opens on a high note as series hero Stone Barrington--attorney and ex-cop, he of the large...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-019187-0
The prolific Woods returns to his roots with an unexceptional new episode in his Lee family saga, a series dormant since 1989. Will and Kate Lee, now a Washington power couple, decide to go for broke in their service to the country. Will, a popular...
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Stuart Woods, Author Putnam $24.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-399-14664-0
This latest installment in Woods's Stone Barrington thriller series finds the lawyer/sleuth from New York back in Los Angeles on a murder case in which everyone, even the accused, lazes along, enjoying life in sunny Southern California. In his sixth
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Stuart Woods, Putnam, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15691-5
Ed Eagle continues to contend with his ex-wife, Barbara Eagle Keeler, in Woods's less than topnotch fourth thriller to feature the Santa Fe lawyer (after Santa Fe Dead). Keeler, who's incarcerated in Mexico's El Diablo Prison for Women, contrives to
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Stuart Woods, Putnam, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15711-0
At the start of Woods's routine 19th novel featuring lawyer and man of action Stone Barrington (after Lucid Intervals), Barrington has a lot to celebrate: he's received a $1 million bonus from Woodman & Weld, the prestigious New York City law firm...
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Stuart Woods, Author Avon Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71169-7
A senate election, a controversial murder trial and a string of vigilante killings are compelling plot elements woven into this ``tautly drawn suspense novel.'' PW noted that although the ingenuity runs out in the final chapters, ``Woods's headlong...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperTorch $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-109936-6
Liz Barwick's tranquil life on an island off the Georgia coast turns nightmarish after a tragic secret two decades old is unearthed and her ex-husband, a steroid-crazed NFL star, goes on a murderous rampage. A ``fast-paced, multilevel tale of...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (311p) ISBN 978-0-06-018369-1
Formerly a cop and now a lawyer, Stone Barrington is plummeting to the bottom of the ocean with an anchor chained to his waist at the start of Woods's 17th novel (after Dead in the Water, 1997), a smoothly presented if slight thriller that ambles...
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Stuart Woods, Author W. W. Norton & Company $15.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-393-02272-8
Winner of an Edgar for his debut in Chiefs, basis of a six-hour TV series, Woods presents another potential bestseller, vibrating with tensions created by covert operations in the CIA and the KGB. The heroine is Kate Rule, member of the team at...
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Stuart Woods, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63332-5
The Edgar Award-winning author of Chiefs (basis of a TV miniseries) and the bestselling Deep Lie now offers a highly readable if somewhat overheated thriller-cum-gothic that includes murder, drug smuggling, faith healing, hallucinations, revenants...
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Stuart Woods, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63333-2
Despite Woods's on-site research in Colombia, this suspense tale of cocaine trafficking and kidnapping only skims the surface of the seamy drug world it purports to investigate. Wendell (``Cat'') Catledge, a self-made electronics millionaire, is...
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Stuart Woods, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66739-9
Three compelling plot lines are woven into a tautly drawn suspense novel by the author of Chiefs ; not a whodunit or a howdunit, but a how-does-it-all-connect. After years as chief of staff for a venerable Georgia senator, Will Lee decides to run...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (303p) ISBN 978-0-06-017963-2
You're a rich, successful Hollywood producer who awakens the morning before Thanksgiving in your Santa Fe home with no memory of the previous night. Ignoring your dog's attempts to get you to visit the guest wing of the house, you leave and fly your
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-06-017911-3
Woods ( Chiefs ) is in bestseller form with this fast-paced, multilevel tale of mystery and revenge. When Liz Barwick is beaten nearly to death by her steroid-crazed husband, Baker Ramsey, a star NFL running back, she quickly divorces him, takes a...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (303p) ISBN 978-0-06-017925-0
Woods's latest (after Palindrome ) is a slick thriller set in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the stomping ground of Stone Barrington, a well-bred but unpretentious detective who, in a city of several million people, always ends up in the right place...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $21 (329p) ISBN 978-0-06-017714-0
Prolific crime writer Woods is back in form with a propulsive thriller featuring a movie mogul embroiled in multiple murders. While his last effort, the disappointing Santa Fe Rules , had a similar plot trajectory, Woods succeeds here with the help...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (303p) ISBN 978-0-06-017715-7
``The first letter arrived on a Monday.'' So begins the masterfully paced thriller from the author of Palindrome , Santa Fe Rules , etc. Young Hollywood actress Chris Callaway is poised at the brink of stardom when her world collapses. Shortly after
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (346p) ISBN 978-0-06-017776-8
Woods's sixth novel in three years is likely to follow its predecessors ( L.A. Times , etc.) onto bestseller lists. In this artfully plotted thriller, ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden, wrongly convicted of a murder he suspects was the work of Dan Barker,...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (269p) ISBN 978-0-06-017775-1
Though Woods's (Heat) latest caper provides all the credibility of a soap opera, the novel also offers some of the guilty pleasures attendant to that TV format. When wine merchant Sandy Kinsolving meets art dealer Peter Martindale on a flight from...
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Stuart Woods, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (280p) ISBN 978-0-06-017667-9
Woods (Chiefs; Imperfect Strangers) writes a no-frills thriller that moves right along and carries the reader with it. There's no atmosphere to speak of, the psychology is elementary, the characters strictly from stock; but as a creator of a taut...
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Stuart Woods, Putnam, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15736-3
Woods's dizzyingly paced 20th Stone Barrington novel (after Strategic Moves) takes the New York attorney to Los Angeles to represent recent widow Arrington Calder, his sometime lover, in her attempts to keep control of Centurion Studios. Barrington...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15765-3
Everything flows so smoothly in Woods's 21st Stone Barrington novel (after Bel-Air Dead) that one knows disaster can't be too far behind for the New York lawyer now a full partner in Woodman & Weld, among his other duties. Arrington Calder, Stone's...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15766-0
Bestseller Woods’s lackluster 22nd Stone Barrington novel (after 2011’s Son of Stone) takes the New York City lawyer and his NYPD sidekick, Lt. Dino Bacchetti, to Washington, D.C. There, the U.S. president asks Stone, a retired homicide detective,...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15886-5
The closing of Manhattan’s real-life Elaine’s restaurant kicks off bestseller Woods’s 23rd Stone Barrington novel (after D.C. Dead), in which the usual cast overcome whatever obstacles fate places in their way with an appealing and inspiring...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15984-8
Bestseller Woods’s 50th novel, the 24th entry in his Stone Barrington series (Unnatural Acts, etc.), boasts an all-star lineup, from series fixtures such as Lt. Dino Bacchetti and lawyer Herbie Fisher to Woods’s other series leads, notably U.S....
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15986-2
In Woods’s high-octane 25th Stone Barrington thriller, which picks up where 2012’s Severe Clear left off, terrorist Jasmine Shazaz orchestrates a series of bombings designed to avenge her brothers, Ari and Mohammad Shazaz, who met untimely ends in...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15987-9
At the start of Edgar-winner Woods’s slick 26th Stone Barrington novel (after Collateral Damage), the New York City attorney awakens in a hospital bed in the American embassy in Paris with no memory of the previous four days and no idea why he’s in...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-16414-9
Edgar-winner Woods’s smooth 27th Stone Barrington novel (after Unintended Consequences) takes the New York City attorney to Los Angeles, where Stone’s son, Peter; Peter’s girlfriend, Hattie Patrick; and friend Dino Bacchetti’s son, Benito, are...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-16415-6
A misunderstanding leads Stone Barrington to take on ex-con John Fratelli as a client at the start of bestseller Woods’s polished 28th outing for the suave New York City attorney (after 2013’s Doing Hard Time). Fratelli put his 25 years in Sing Sing
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-16416-3
Stone Barrington shows he’s one of the smoothest operators around, despite running into a few rough patches, in Edgar-winner Woods’s entertaining 29th novel featuring the New York City attorney (after Standup Guy). What starts as a business meeting...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-16911-3
Bestseller Woods’s politically themed 30th Stone Barrington novel (after Carnal Curiosity) takes the debonair New York attorney to Los Angeles for the Democratic National Convention. Stone plays host at the Arrington, his posh Beverly Hills resort,...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-16912-0
Edgar-winner Woods’s intriguing 31st Stone Barrington novel (after Cut and Thrust) takes the New York City attorney to Paris for the opening of his new hotel, l’Arrington. Stone leaves behind his love, Ann Keaton, to manage the campaign of the first-
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-16915-1
Stone Barrington faces unusual problems in bestseller Woods’s rousing 32nd novel featuring the high-powered New York City attorney (after 2014’s Paris Match). After celebrating the election of his friend Kate Lee to the U.S. presidency, Stone is...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-16916-8
At the start of Edgar-winner Woods's glossy 33rd Stone Barrington novel (after Insatiable Appetites), the bourbon-sipping lawyer and aviator takes possession of a brand-new private jet on a chilly winter's day at an airfield in Wichita, Kans. The...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17466-7
Bestseller Woods’s glittering 34th novel featuring Stone Barrington (after Hot Pursuit) finds the suave cop turned attorney helping Jose “Pepe” Perado, a Texas brewer, open a beer distributorship, and possibly a brewery, in New York City. The...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17467-4
Edgar-winner Woods’s appealing 35th Stone Barrington novel (after Naked Greed) takes the peripatetic New York lawyer, playboy, and investor to Rome, where the Arrington Group, of which he is a board member, is planning to build a palatial new hotel.
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17468-1
In bestseller Woods’s extravagant 36th Stone Barrington’s novel (after 2015’s Foreign Affairs), the peripatetic multimillionaire travels to England, where Dame Felicity Devonshire, the director of MI6, gives him a tour of Windward Hall, the...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17469-8
At the start of bestseller Woods’s breezy 37th Stone Barrington novel (after Scandalous Behavior), wealthy divorcee Carrie Fiske hires the New York City detective turned attorney to dissuade her ex-husband, Harvey Biggers, from stalking her and to...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-57391-0
Boris Tirov, the hapless villain of Edgar-winner Woods’s diverting 38th Stone Barrington novel (after Family Jewels), detests Stone, a suave, well-connected New York City attorney whose latest lady friend happens to be Boris’s ex-wife, screenwriter...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-57394-1
Hitting the lottery jackpot can be a lot of fun, as shown in bestseller Woods’s satisfying 39th Stone Barrington novel (after Dishonorable Intentions). Laurence Hayward, an Eton schoolmaster with American roots who has won $612 million playing...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-57397-2
At the start of bestseller Woods’s thrilling 40th Stone Barrington novel (after 2016’s Dishonorable Intentions), the debonair New York lawyer agrees to do a favor for his friend former U.S. president Will Lee, who’s visiting Santa Fe, N.Mex., where...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-57419-1
Stone Barrington survives a number of close calls, starting with a collision between his yacht and another, larger boat in Maine’s foggy Penobscot Bay, in Edgar-winner Woods’s enjoyable 41st novel starring the successful New York City attorney (after
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1711-9
When Democrat Kate Lee wins a second term as president in bestseller Woods’s slow-simmering 42nd Stone Barrington novel (after Fast & Loose), Stone’s old flame Holly Barker becomes secretary of state. Unfortunately for the debonair New York attorney,
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1714-0
The theft of a small, unknown Van Gogh painting from a Park Avenue penthouse propels bestseller Woods’s suspenseful 43rd novel featuring wealthy, well-connected New York attorney Stone Barrington (after Indecent Exposure). During the robbery, the...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1717-1
Hollywood producer Billy Barnett (aka former CIA agent Teddy Faye) takes center stage in bestseller Woods’s inventive 44th Stone Barrington novel (after 2017’s Quick & Dirty), while Stone offers guidance from the sidelines. After a drunk driver...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1720-1
At the start of bestseller Woods’s smooth 45th Stone Barrington novel (after Unbound), business takes the wealthy New York lawyer to Key West, Fla., where he meets Silicon Valley entrepreneur Meg Harmon, whose company has recently developed software
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1919-9
The approach of Hurricane Irma raises the tension early in bestseller Woods’s 46th novel featuring lawyer Stone Barrington (after Shoot First) as Stone and friends, including Secretary of State Holly Barker, hunker down at his house in Key West, Fla.
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1922-9
A killer is stalking petite blond women on Manhattan’s East Side in Edgar-winner Woods’s diverting 47th novel featuring New York lawyer Stone Barrington (after Turbulence). One intended victim, Faith Barnacle, whom Stone recently hired as his...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-16111-7
Originally published in 1977, novelist Woods's first book tells the true story of the author's journey to and participation in the 1976 Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race (OSTAR). Originally from Georgia, Woods was living in Ireland and...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-18526-7
Bestseller Woods (Dishonorable Intentions) teams with Edgar-finalist Hall (A Fool for a Client) on this testosterone-fueled thriller, which features recurring character Teddy Fay, an ex-CIA agent and master of disguise, who first appeared as a...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1723-2
New York lawyer Herbie Fisher, the hard-luck hero of this cleverly plotted comic thriller from Edgar-winner Woods and Hall (Smooth Operator), gets called in at the last minute to defend David Ross, a college kid accused of selling drugs at a party...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1859-8
Blackmail drives bestseller Woods and Edgar-finalist Hall’s exciting second novel starring former CIA agent Teddy Fay (after 2016’s Smooth Operator). Teddy is working as a stunt man on an action film for Centurion Studios in Hollywood when the...
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Stuart Woods, read by Tony Roberts. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, six CDs, 7.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-261-7
For a while now, Broadway and film actor Roberts has brightened Woods’s adventures of lawyer-about-town Stone Barrington with a breezy narration that also carries more than a fair amount of charm. It’s almost magical the way his interpretation of...
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Stuart Woods, Author, TBA, Read by , read by Jan Maxwell. Putnam Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14820-0
Audio Reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FictionORCHID BLUESStuart Woods, read by Jan Maxwell. Putnam Audio, abridged, four cassettes, 5.5 hrs., $24.95...
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Stuart Woods, Author, Tony Roberts, Read by , read by Tony Roberts. Penguin Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305838-0
Ex-cop/attorney Stone Barrington travels to the isolated island community of Dark Harbor, Maine, to handle the estate of his late cousin Dick, who was found dead in his home along with his wife and daughter. The police initially think it's a...
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Stuart Woods, Author, Tony Roberts, Read by , read by Tony Roberts. Penguin Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314246-1
Tony Roberts shows off his comedic and dramatic skills in Woods's newest addition to the Stone Barrington saga. The elegant cop-turned-lawyer's new adventure has a welcome lightheartedness. He, his crime-fighting paramour, Holly, and their
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Stuart Woods, read by Tony Roberts. Penguin Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-140-5
In Woods’s previous installment of his Stone Barrigton series, America’s secret weapon, Manhattan lawyer Barrington, stopped a terrorist attempt to kill the president in a Los Angeles hotel bombing. Now, the sister of two of the dead terrorists,...
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Stuart Woods, read by Tony Roberts, Penguin Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 7 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-0-14-242772-9
Tony Roberts strikes just the right note in his reading of Woods's latest Barrington Stone adventure. Stone unwillingly takes on as a client the perpetually clueless trouble magnet Herbie Fisher, who has just come into several million dollars of...
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Stuart Woods, Author, Tony Roberts, Read by HarperAudio $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52150-0
Woods's breezy and irreverent brand of detective fiction, full of mischievous asides, plays especially well as audio drama. He's in top form here, having returned to his popular hero, Stone Barrington, a retired cop-turned-investigator who works in...
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Stuart Woods, Author, Ken Howard, Performed by HarperAudio $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52267-5
If at times a bit unbelievable, Wood's account of an idealistic politician's presidential campaign moves quickly and provides readers with many intriguing plot twists. By unusual circumstance, Will Lee, a well-respected senator from Georgia, is...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-18838-5
Edgar-winner Woods’s subpar 57th Stone Barrington novel (after 2020’s Hush-Hush) pits the superrich New York lawyer against two psychopathic relatives, twins Eben and Enos Stone, who have been paroled from prison in Maine, thanks largely to the...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-33166-8
Bestseller Woods’s disquieting 58th novel featuring New York attorney Stone Barrington (after Double Jeopardy) finds Stone representing an ex-con just released from Sing Sing with a lot of enemies who are criminals, including Manny Fiore, “the mob’s
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-33169-9
At the outset of bestseller Woods’s enjoyable 59th Stone Barrington novel, attorney Stone welcomes a new client, Shep Troutman, whom he first rescues from an assailant near his Manhattan townhouse. Shep, who’s staying at the Carlyle Hotel and...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-33172-9
Bestseller Woods’s lighthearted 60th Stone Barrington novel (after Foul Play) opens at a Manhattan restaurant, where the suave attorney is waiting for his old pal Dino Bacchetti, New York City’s police commissioner. After Dino phones to say he won’t
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-33175-0
Edgar winner Woods’s slapdash 61st novel featuring attorney Stone Barrington (after 2021’s Criminal Mischief) finds Stone and Dino Bacchetti, his New York City police commissioner pal, dining at their favorite Manhattan restaurant when they’re...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1925-0
At the start of bestseller Woods’s suspenseful, twisty 48th Stone Barrington novel (after Desperate Measures), lawyer Stone arranges for a safe located in the Brooklyn mansion of the late Eduardo Bianchi, “a mysteriously powerful man reputed to have
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-54000-8
Bestseller Woods’s slick 62nd novel featuring suave New York attorney Stone Barrington (after A Safe House) opens with the arrival of recently widowed Annetta Charles at Stone’s Manhattan townhouse. Annetta wishes to make changes to her will...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $29 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-54003-9
During a severe storm, the body of a man, shot twice in the head, is found on the ferry to the island of Islesboro, Maine, in bestseller Woods’s twisty 63rd novel starring New York attorney Stone Barrington (after Black Dog). Inside the man’s wallet
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Stuart Woods and Brett Battles. Putnam, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593540-06-0
The latest entry in the long-running series featuring New York City attorney Stone Barrington (following 2022’s Distant Thunder), completed by Battles after Woods’s death in 2022, is an unfortunate dud. Barrington, who’s romantically involved with U.
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-08313-0
Bestseller Woods’s diverting 50th Stone Barrington novel (after Wild Card) finds the New York attorney relaxing on a yacht anchored off Fort Jefferson, in Florida’s Dry Tortugas, when a small plane makes a forced landing nearby and sinks in the...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1928-1
Bestseller Woods’s fast-paced 49th Stone Barrington novel picks up where its predecessor, 2018’s A Delicate Touch, left off. New York attorney Stone and his latest paramour, New York Times reporter Jamie Cox, are ensconced at his English estate,...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-08316-1
Bestseller Woods’s surprising 51st Stone Barrington novel (after Contraband) takes the New York lawyer to Station Two, an MI6 training facility in the Scottish Highlands, where he almost drowns after driving the Aston Martin he borrowed from his...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-08319-2
In bestseller Woods’s serviceable 52nd Stone Barrington novel (after 2019’s Stealth), CIA director Lance Cabot calls on New York attorney Stone, a part-time CIA consultant, for help in exposing a State Department mole who’s working for the Russians.
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-08322-2
At the start of bestseller Woods’s one-note 53rd Stone Barrington novel (after Treason), the fabulously rich New York attorney discovers that his name is on a hit list of 10 people, one of whom is soon shot dead while skating at Rockefeller Center’s
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-18829-3
Secretary of State Holly Barker is elected president in bestseller Woods’s exciting 54th Stone Barrington novel (after Hit List). New York lawyer Stone immediately invites Holly, his longtime paramour, to spend a week at his house in Islesboro,...
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-18832-3
At the start of bestseller Woods’s fun 55th novel featuring debonair New York attorney Stone Barrington (after Choppy Water), Stone returns to the Washington, D.C., hotel where he’s staying for the inauguration of his longtime paramour, Holly Barker,
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Stuart Woods. Putnam, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-18835-4
Edgar winner Woods’s entertaining 56th Stone Barrington novel (after Shakeup) opens with the suave New York City attorney receiving an extortion letter on his computer demanding $1.5 million. Stone, who does consulting work for the CIA, calls his...
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Stuarts Woods and Bryon Quertermous. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-18845-3
Bestseller Woods and Quertermous’s busy fifth Teddy Fay novel (after 2020’s Bombshell) takes the former CIA operative to Macau, where Centurion Studios owners Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti, who employ Teddy in his guise as movie producer Billy...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1916-8
At the start of bestseller Woods and Edgar finalist Hall’s breezy third Teddy Faye novel (after 2018’s The Money Shot), Lance Cabot, the head of the CIA, orders the ex-CIA operative, who knows disobeying Lance isn’t a good idea, to leave his...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-08325-3
Set in Hollywood, bestseller Woods and Edgar finalist Hall’s brisk fourth Teddy Fay novel (after 2019’s Skin Game) finds former CIA operative Teddy alternating between two identities. A few minutes applying makeup and putting on a wig transforms...
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Stuart Woods and Brett Battles. Putnam, $29 (308p) ISBN 978-0-59-318848-4
The breezy sixth Teddy Fay thriller from Woods and Battles (following 2021’s Jackpot) sees the former CIA operative and master of disguise switching between his true identity and those of Academy Award–winning actor Mark Weldon and film producer...
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