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stone in palm beach with a rich women and insurance fraud. great read donna

I had never read Stuart Woods before but I found this entertaining. Sort of like James Bond without class. Stone Barrington is mostly unbelievable but it is fun and his friends are colorful, so read on.

STone always manages to get himself involved in something interesting!

Loved the surprise ending.

Stone Barrington getting himself in more trouble...
A fun, fast-paced book.

really good

I enjoyed all of this series of books.

We found Stuart Woods last year and love his tongue in cheek writing. A great Stone Barrington novel - Palm Beach, rich folks, old friends and entanglements. A read to keep you up all night

Palm Bch. mystery,Stone Barrington series,GREAT

It was a fun, quick read. Iy would be good for anyone who likes sleek mysteries and intrigues.

Palm Beach is the most glamorous scene of the crime yet for cop-turned-investigator Stone Barrington, who becomes reacquainted with a case he thought was buried years ago-and must settle romantic entanglements that haunt him still.... Fair-Weather Friend. Luxuriating in Palm Beach's winter warmth, Stone is stunned to recognize someone he thought was dead. Former client Allison Manning is alive and well-and suddenly very rich. Now she needs Sone's hel in squaring a charge of insurance fraud that's been hanging over her head for years-and in getting rid of a recently acquired stalker. Suspects abound, including an elusive writer, an enigmatic businessman, and Allison's devious former husband. Only Stone can thwart the sly and greedy plan to steal the millions of dollars at stake-and the crafty killer behind it....

"Woods delivers his most riveting and glamorous Barrington novel yet." -- Vero Beach Press Journal

"Plenty of action plus a surprise ending." -- The Stuart News/Post/Port St. Lucie News

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 Shames, a wealthy computer tycoon, offers Stone a small fortune and the opportunity to escape the arctic cold if he will fly to glitzy Palm Beach, Fla., and find a femme fatale Shames knows only as Liz. With the help of Callie Hodges, Shames's sensual young Girl Friday, Stone wastes little time finding Liz, but discovers she is really Allison Manning, a woman he saved from the gallows a few years back (Dead in the Water, 1997). Now known as Elizabeth Harding, she fears her first husband a murderer who Stone believed had been executed is alive and may be stalking her. Not to be deterred from wooing and wedding Liz, Shames asks Stone to protect her. Stone himself is besieged by women: first, the delectable Callie, then his old girlfriend Arrington Calder (L.A. Dead, 2000) and finally, Liz, who suggests a m‚nage … trois with Callie. In the midst of these amorous adventures, Stone consults Dino back in New York, trying to ID a man who fits the stalker's description, and Dino flies in just in time to be involved in a shootout in a Worth Avenue restaurant. Loaded with perfumed sex, sleek jets and yachts, lavish homes, boutiques, gourmet cuisine, quirky twists and nonstop action, Woods's pulpy pedestrian plot is grand fun. Simultaneous audio. (Apr. 23)Forecast: As frothy as ever, but more carefully plotted than L.A. Dead, Woods's latest should scale the charts, given a hefty boost by the book clubs (Doubleday and Mystery Guild main selections; BOMC and Literary Guild alternate selections), a national ad/promo campaign and a 15-city author tour.
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A Stone Barrington novel.

I think this is the second in the Stone Barrington series of Stuart Woods books about the suave cop-turned-investigator for the rich and famous. Very suspenseful with many plot twists and turns

# 7 in the series

Palm Beach is the most glamorous scene of the crime yet for cop-turned-investigator Stone Barrington, who becomes requainted wiyh a case he thought was buried years ago-and must settle romantic entanglements that haunts him still...

#7 in the Stone Barrington series, this one is set in Palm Beach. Stone is surprised to meet someone he thought was dead... and then the fun begins.

luxiuriating in palm beach's winter warmth,stone is stunned to recognize someone he thought was dead.former client allison manning is alieve and well-and suddenly very rich.now she needs stones's help in squaring a charge of insurance fraud that been hangine over her head ofr years -and in getting rid of a recently acquired stalker. suspercts abound,including an elusive writer,an enigmatic businesssman,and allison's devious former husband.

Palm Beach is the most glamorous scene of the crime yet for cop turned-investigator Stone Barrington, who becomes reacquainted with a case he thought was buried years ago--and must settle romantic entanglements that haunt him still...