Description
Stuart Woods is the author of twenty-seven novels. He lives in Maine, Florida, and New York City. From AudioFile In the latest Stone Barrington title, our hero, a cop turned lawyer, is asked by an heiress to obtain evidence that her husband is having an affair. The fiasco of hiring a photographer who falls through a skylight while taking the pictures turns into a string of murders, and a trail of dead bodies ensues. Laced with a healthy dose of intrigue and humor, this is a winner despite an uneven performance by Robert Lawrence. His deep voice works well for the character of Stone but isn't nearly as successful for the female voices. The British accents are poor and inconsistent, and the voices of the younger characters don't sound young at all. The story and the writing are strong enough to overcome these deficiencies, but with a better reader this would have been a tour de force. S.S.R. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Features & Highlights
- Back in New York City after the London adventures of The Short Forever, cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington is approached by a colleague at the firm of Woodman & Weld who needs help with a celebrity divorce case. Heiress Elena Marks needs proof of her layabout husband's infidelity before she can begin divorce proceedings. When the undercover work Stone sets up turns dirty - and catastrophic - leaving the errant husband dead and the mystery woman gone without a trace, Stone must clear his own good name and find a killer hiding among the glitterati of New York's high society. Carpenter - the beautiful British intelligence agent first encountered in The Short Forever - arrives in New York to begin an investigation of her own; Stone suspects that her case is strangely connected to the dead husband. And he and Dino, his former NYPD partner, are set to face the most bizarre and challenging assignment of their very colorful careers.
