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Cop turned lawyer and investigator Stone Barrington ventures out to the West Coast - and out on a limb - in this "stylish whodunit" ( Detroit News) filled with romance and murder. Stone's trip to Venice -with a fiery Mafia princess- is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and has a former flame pining for Stone's help - in more ways than one....

New York Times best-selling author Stuart Woods returns with another absorbing thriller. President Will Lee is having a rough week. His vice president just died during surgery. Confirmation hearings for the new vice president are under way, but the squeaky-clean governor whom Will has nominated may have a few previously unnoticed skeletons in his closet. And Teddy Fay, the rogue CIA agent last seen in Shoot Him If He Runs, is plotting his revenge on CIA director Kate Rule Lee - the president's wife.

Will Lee, the hero of the acclaimed New York Times best-sellers Run Before the Wind and Grassroots, has finally established himself at the heart of American government as the respected Senator from his home state of Georgia. The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous and deadly than Will and his wife, Kate, an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine.

Vinnie Callabrese toils in the mean world of a Mafia hood, violently enforcing his loan-shark boss's debt collections, but he lives in the world of the movies, one where he can tie a bow tie like Cary Grant and speak with the voice of Tyrone Power.

Successful Hollywood movie producer Wolf Willett is stunned when he happens to read his own New York Times obituary: victim of a sordid triple homicide amid a steamy ménage à trois with his young bride and best friend. Who's the corpse? Who wants him dead? And why has Wolf blacked out the entire evening of the grisly crime?

Stone Barrington, an ex-cop turned Manhattan attorney and private eye, treads the thin line between the respectable practice of law and the dark side of humanity. The roller-coaster ride begins during a vacation on the Caribbean island of St. Marks, when a beautiful young woman named Allison Manning sails into the harbor on a large yacht. Allison immediately draws the attention of Minister of Justice Sir Winston Sutherland, who demands to know why her husband, a famous writer, has vanished.

Chuck was once a finalist at Wimbledon, but now he's a club pro in Key West, where he meets Harry and Clare Carras. Harry dazzles Chuck with his technique on the court, and Clare does likewise in the bedroom. When a yacht explodes in the marina, all fingers point to Harry, until a mysterious accident leaves him dead.

Major Holly Barker, the army brat daughter of a master sergeant, has been forced into early retirement at the age of 37 as the result of a scandalous sexual harassment case. With the help of her dad, she makes the move to civilian life, becoming deputy chief of police in Orchid Beach, Florida. But below the surface of this sleepy, well-to-do coastal island town lies a web of evil and deceit that escalates when a colleague and another associate are brutally gunned down.

The notes are signed "Admirer". At first respectful, they become increasingly bizarre and are accompanied by roses, then other, more macabre offerings. Chris Calloway, a rising young Hollywood actress, finds the letters irritating, then frightening; but when a freak accident takes away her sight, Admirer turns her world into a nightmare.

Two strangers on a plane, each with wives who are making their lives miserable, have a few too many drinks and strike a sinister deal. Suddenly Sandy Kinsolving is facing a future of wealth and freedom, as well as a brutal murder he cannot bring himself to prevent and a madman who stalks his every waking moment. This dazzling story of greed, love, betrayal, and murder is Stuart Woods at his best.

"For mere end tredive år siden, da jeg rodede i et skab i min mormors hjem, fandt jeg et stort politimesterskilt. Det var bulet og mærket af dyrehagl og bar stadig spor af indtørret blod. Det havde tilhørt min bedstefar, der var død med det på sin uniform, mere end ti år før jeg blev født. Historien om hans død, sådan som min bedstemor berettede den for mig, dannede grundlaget for denne bog, men så lidt fik jeg at vide, og så meget har jeg broderet på det, at begivenheden, som alt andet i bogen, må betragtes som fiktion.

Ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden has seen enough of the inside of a solitary confinement cell to last him a lifetime. Or two lifetimes, which is the sentence he's serving after being convicted of a plan he was planning to commit, but never did. So when an old buddy shows up with a deal that could spring him from his hell behind bars, he's ready to listen.

Will Lee, the hero of the acclaimed New York Times best sellers Run Before the Wind and Grassroots, has finally established himself at the heart of American government as the respected senator from his home state of Georgia.

Share in the joys, nightmares and sheer absurdities of parenting with two dads and bunch of special guests. Keith Stuart is the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club bestselling novel A Boy Made of Blocks, as well as games editor for the Guardian; Ed Wood is a book editor and former journalist. They both have autistic sons, they both like a chat about books, games and films, and they both have very little filter for talking nonsense about what it’s like to be a dad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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