Cut and Thrust
Publishers Weekly 05/05/2014 Bestseller Woods’s politically themed 30th Stone Barrington novel (after Carnal Curiosity) takes the debonair New York attorney to Los Angeles for the Democratic National Convention. Stone plays host at the Arrington, his posh Beverly Hills resort, to his current lover, Ann Keaton, who’s the deputy campaign manager for presidential candidate Katharine “Kate†[…]
Standup Guy
Publishers Weekly 10/14/2013 A misunderstanding leads Stone Barrington to take on ex-con John Fratelli as a client at the start of bestseller Woods’s polished 28th outing for the suave New York City attorney (after 2013’s Doing Hard Time). Fratelli put his 25 years in Sing Sing to good use by protecting fellow prisoner Eduardo Buono, […]
Carnal Curiosity
Publishers Weekly 02/03/2014 Stone Barrington shows he’s one of the smoothest operators around, despite running into a few rough patches, in Edgar-winner Woods’s entertaining 29th novel featuring the New York City attorney (after Standup Guy). What starts as a business meeting for insurance adjuster Crane Hart ends in Stone’s bedroom, as so often happens with […]
Doing Hard Time
Publishers Weekly 08/12/2013 Edgar-winner Woods’s smooth 27th Stone Barrington novel (after Unintended Consequences) takes the New York City attorney to Los Angeles, where Stone’s son, Peter; Peter’s girlfriend, Hattie Patrick; and friend Dino Bacchetti’s son, Benito, are headed to begin work on their first film for Centurion Studios after graduating from the Yale School of […]
Unintended Consequences
“Woods is a perpetual reader-magnet. . . . The pages [fly] by fast and furious.†—Booklist
Collateral Damage : a Stone Barrington Novel
Publishers Weekly In Woods’s high-octane 25th Stone Barrington thriller, which picks up where 2012’s Severe Clear left off, terrorist Jasmine Shazaz orchestrates a series of bombings designed to avenge her brothers, Ari and Mohammad Shazaz, who met untimely ends in the previous book. Her first salvo, in London, kills the foreign secretary and triggers alarms […]
Severe Clear : a Stone Barrington Novel
Library Journal Woods's 50th novel—and protagonist Stone Barrington's 24th, if I am counting correctly—takes Barrington to Bel-Air, where a grand hotel called the Arrington is opening on the grounds of the mansion belonging to his late wife. Alas, terrorists threaten to upend the glittering gala.
Unnatural Acts : a Stone Barrington Novel
Kirkus Reviews Now that everything in New York super-lawyer Stone Barrington's life is perfect, it's time to start grooming a successor: ex-loser Herbie Fisher, now a junior associate at Woodman & Weld. Although he's willing to listen to billionaire Marshall Brennan's tale of woe about his son Dink's piddling $200,000 gambling debt, Stone's too big […]
D.C. Dead
Overview: After a shocking loss, Stone Barrington is at loose ends, unsure if he wants to stay in New York and continue his work as a partner at Woodman & Weld. It comes as a welcome relief when he's summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation that calls […]
Son of Stone : a Stone Barrington Novel
Library Journal: Yup, looks as if Stone Barrington had a son—according to rich-rich former love Arrington Calder. She's got other plans for him, too. Don't know yet where the suspense comes in—though those plans are probably dangerous—but Woods is always popular.