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Coming hot on the heels of his bestsellers Choke and Imperfect Strangers, Stuart Woods brings back one of his best-loved characters, Stone Barrington, in a fast-paced roller coaster ride through the murderous world of high-profile celebrity gossip.Feared and disliked for both her poison pen and ice-queen persona, gossip columnist Amanda Dart suddenly finds the tables have turned: she is the unwitting victim of an anonymous gossipmonger who is faxing national opinion makers an outrageous scandal sheet revealing the details of her ongoing indiscretions with a well-known business tycoon.So Amanda enlists the help of New York lawyer and investigator Stone Barrington to learn the identity of the faxer. The problem is, everybody is a suspect in the world of tabloid journalism. As the faxes grow more scathing and begin to expose the peccadilloes of not only Amanda but other members of the gossip community, Barrington winds up with more leads than he can handle and an employer who is about to take matters dangerously into her own hands. The world of gossip has been turned on its head, and it becomes clear to Stone that even the most respected members of the social scene will stop at nothing – even murder – to clear their names.Irresistible as only good gossip can be, Dirt is a mesmerizing tale of betrayal and murder set against a backdrop of the rapid-fire Manhattan tabloid business and is filled with the twists and turns that have made Stuart Woods’ novels international hits.

The notes are signed "Admirer". At first respectful, they become increasingly bizarre and are accompanied first by roses, then by other more macabre offerings. "Admirer" begins to turn to in actress Chris Calloway's worst nightmare.

‘A highly ingenious and gory story’Daily ExpressWhen beautiful photographer Liz Barwick arrives in the emergency room of a Georgia hospital she is close to death. Her brutal assailant is her husband, Bake Ramsey, all-American football megastar.Liz retreats to the remote beauty of Cumberland Island to forget the horror of her marriage. There she meets Keir and Hamish Drummond, handsome twins whose family have owned the island for centuries, and becomes increasingly involved with them and their mysterious feud…But even as her own traumatic memories fade, a series of gruesome and apparently unconnected murders take place on the mainland and Liz must learn there is no place to escape – not even in her lover’s arms…

‘Silky-smooth… stylish suspense, with a winsome hero and agreeable dollops of sex, gore and demented mayhem’Kirkus ReviewEveryone is always telling Stone Barrington that he’s too smart to be a cop, but it’s pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside-out.Suddenly he is on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the encreasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country’s hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman.No matter where he turns, the case is waiting for him, haunting his nights and turning his days into a living hell. Stone finds himself caught in a perilous web of unspeakable crimes, dangerous friends and sexual depravity that has throughout it one common thread: Sasha.

Michael Vincent, a New York mobster turned Hollywood producer, finds success in Tinseltown, but his past threatens to catch up with him.Follows the fortunes of Vinnie, a fringe member of the New York mob, who is obsessed by movies. After taking a course in film production, Vinnie – who has now recreated himself as Michael Vincent – hustles up funding to produce a director's first film, and then stops at nothing to get it sold.

Life can be a dangerous game when you play be Santa Fe rules!Learning that his wife and partner have died suspiciously while he was away, successful Hollywood producer Wolf Willett returns home and hires ace criminal defense lawyer Ed Eagle to clear his name of the murder charge.

Framed by a fellow Drug Enforcement Agency Officer, Jesse Warden can count on at least 20 more years in prison, until he gets an offer he can't refuse. Warden's decision and its explosive consequences provide a surprising climax to this tale of a man whose life has spun out of control.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.To gain his freedom, Jesse must infiltrate a dangerous and reclusive religious cult that has been stockpiling weapons and eliminating those sent to investigate. From the moment he arrives in the Idaho mountain town where the cult is centered, Jesse finds every aspect of life dictated by the group's eerie, imposing leader. Pitted against not only the cult, but also the feds who sent him, Jesse feels control of his own life slipping away, and must make a final,desperate attempt to regain it – or die trying.

Watching "Strangers on a Train" on his flight to New York, Sandy and the stranger sitting next to him discuss how they could successfully murder the "inconvenient" people in their lives. By the time the plane has landed, Sandy has set in motion a course of action that will change his life forever.On a flight home from London to New York, Sandy Kingsolving strikes up a conversation with a stranger who will change his life forever. Proposing to perfect Hitchcock's plan from Strangers on a Train and thereby solve Sandy's marital problems, the stranger offers him a glistening new future as well as an unstoppable nightmare.

At Key West's Raquet Club, Chuck Chandler yields to temptation once again, this time for Clare Carras. Suddenly, Chuck is in over his head and suspected of murder. Former New York homicide detective, Tommy Sculley and his partner, Daryl Haynes, follow the murder trail across the West coast.Chuck Chandler, a Key West tennis pro, tends to choke in his big matches, a tendency he must overcome when he meets Harry Carras and his beautiful wife Clare, and becomes a suspect in Harry's death.

This book is an electrifying story from "New York Times" bestselling author Stuart Woods that moves from the urban chaos of Atlanta and Los Angeles to untamed island hideaways, from moments of tender passion to acts of overwhelming violence.

In the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia; the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the body bears marks of what seems to be a ritual beating. The investigation falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano's first chief of police. Lee's obsession with the crime begins a story that weaves through the decades, following the life of a small southern town and the role of three police chiefs in unraveling the crime. Chiefs is the best kind of thriller, where the investigation plays out against the drama beneath the surface of a seemingly placid community, seething with the pressures of race, love, hate, and; always; political power, extending from the town fathers all the way to Washington, DC. With a new foreword by the author, this volume will be a collector's treasure for all fans of Stuart Woods.