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81) L.A. dead
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Trouble finds Stone smack in the middle of a romantic Mediterranean holiday. His trip to Venice--with the fiery Mafia princess Dolce--is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and mysteriously threatens a former flame, Arrington Calder. And once he arrives there, amid Hollywood's sun and sin, he must plumb the depths of film society to find the killer--before a court trial rips away...
83) Blood orchid
Author
Series
Holly Barker volume 3
Language
English
Description
Blood Orchid is the third adventure of one of Stuart Woods's most engaging characters, Chief of Police Holly Barker. This time out, Holly is trying to get her life back together after the shattering loss of her fiance. With the help of her wily Doberman, Daisy, and her father, Ham, she throws herself back into the job with a vengeance. At a local restaurant, Holly and Ham meet a gentleman new to the area, rich and dapper developer Ed Shine, who has...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 3
Language
English
Description
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.
85) Choke
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Series
Language
English
Description
Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion--first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key West's Old Island Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong married woman--the enticing Clare Carras, married to an enigmatic older man--and soon he is in way over his head.
86) Dirty work
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Hired to collect evidence for a celebrity divorce case, cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington finds himself having to defend his honor when the person he is investigating is murdered.
87) Heat
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM. 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...
88) New York dead
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington 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. He is suddenly on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman....
89) Under the lake
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Language
English
Description
A one-time ace reporter rents a cabin in a backwoods Georgia town, then stumbles upon and determines to solve the town mystery, which involves a seemingly affable sheriff, an autocratic town father and an incest-ridden family whose once-prosperous farm now lies under a lake. He joins forces with a plucky female reporter bent on proving that the sheriff is "dirty," and there's never a dull moment as the story surges toward its exciting climax. The...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Stone Barrington of New York investigates a series of murders, apparently committed by a convict in a campaign of vengeance against people who put him away. Complicating the probe is that one of the murders was committed in Barrington's apartment and he is under suspicion.
91) Grass roots
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Series
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English
Description
"As a Georgia senator's chief of staff, attorney Will Lee knows what it takes to run a successful political campaign. With his sights on his own senate run in two years' time, he heads to Delano, Georgia--and back to his family's law practice--hoping to establish a presence in his home state. But his first case, defending a white man of murdering a black woman, puts Will on shaky ground. And when his boss is struck down and Will decides to run for...
93) Orchid Beach
Author
Series
Holly Barker novel volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Military policewoman Holly Barker lost a harassment case against her superior and quit the army. On arriving for a new job as deputy of a Florida town she finds the chief shot, a case which will lead to an assault by the FBI on a compound of the very rich.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist. What many readers don't know is that Woods's very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure. Born in Georgia, Woods worked in advertising in New York, served in the US Air Force,...
96) Dead eyes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
99) Palindrome
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes an emergency room to keep her from death. Now, the beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgia's coast to find solitude--and herself.
100) Run before the wind
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Will Lee had looked forward to a peaceful summer of sun, sailing, and shipbuilding on the coast of Ireland, but instead he's trapped in a lethal game of terror and revenge on the bloody Irish seas.
