" A new addition to the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series. After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. But Arrington has other plans for Stone...including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago"--

Stone Barrington's undercover dealings with MI6 have brought in a big new client for the Woodman & Weld law firm, and the firm is willing to pay Stone a huge bonus and make him a partner. But a murder close to home and a request from the CIA to help transport a fugitive, Erwin Gelbhardt, from Spain to the U.S., bring him back to earth.

A woman docks a yacht in a Caribbean port, claiming her husband had a heart attack and she buried him at sea. The authorities note the $12-million insurance policy and charge her with murder. Vacationing lawyer Stone Barrington, whose girlfriend is away, comes to her aid.

Gossip columnist Amanda Dart gets a taste of her own medicine when a photograph arrives in her office showing her in bed with a married man. The sender threatens to make the photo public unless Amanda pays. PI Stone Barrington is hired to find the blackmailer. By the author of New York Dead.

The one-man stalker squad of the Beverly Hills Police Department begins his hunt for the stalker of a young Hollywood actress.

Although Stone Barrington hadn't heard from his cousin, Dick Stone, in years, he had fond memories of a teenage summer spent at Dick's home in Maine. Those memories were what came to mind the moment he received the news that Dick had apparently committed suicide after killing his wife and daughter. Ironically Stone had received a package from Dick that very morning with instructions to open it only in the event of his death. Believing his cousin innocent,...

Stone Barrington and several friends are vacationing in Florida when an extreme weather event puts a damper on their trip. Even worse, the hurricane-force winds blow a powerful, noxious politician straight onto Stone's doorstep. Though they part ways before long, Stone soon learns that he hasn't seen the last of his new acquaintance. It turns out that this official has some shady associates who may have destructive plans afoot, and Stone needs an...

In the 1940s, former Beverly Hills police officer Rick Barron, now working as head of production at a film studio and directing a Oscar-worthy motion picture, learns that his wife, starlet Glenna Gleason, and screenwriter, Sidney Brooks, are suspected of communism by the U.S. government, setting in motion a series of scandals and murders.

Stone Barrington, suave Manhattan cop-turned-lawyer, is suspicious when he is offered a very hefty retainer to manage the affairs of Texan Billy Bob Barnstormer, and he soon discovers he should have heeded his instincts when his new client, who is wanted by the CIA and the U.S. attorney's office, leaves a dead prostitute in the guest room.

Will Lee, serving as president of the United States, joins with his wife, CIA director Kate Rule Lee, in an effort to track down the assassin who is killing off the nation's high-level politicians.