"When an old acquaintance reaches out to Stone Barrington requesting assistance, the job seems easy enough. She needs an expert in an esoteric field, someone with both the knowledge and careful dexterity to solve a puzzle. But the solution to one small problem blows the lid open on a bigger scandal going back decades, and involving numerous prominent New Yorkers who would prefer the past stay buried."

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.

Stone Barrington and his partner Dino travel to Palm Beach to discover who is stalking former client Allison Manning.

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.

When a managing partner takes on a sleazy con man as a client, attorney Stone Barrington finds himself forced to aid the man's inept efforts to take down an infamous mafia boss, a case for which he teams up with former partner Dino.

"Stone's relationship with Dolce, the daughter of a 'retired' Mafia chieftain, takes a new turn, and then their plans are shattered by events half a world away." Dino Bacchetti's investigations lead to "a court trial that will either condemn or set free an old love, with the hounds of the tabloid press baying at the courthouse doors."--Jacket.

"Stone Barrington has faced intrigue before and come out clean on the other side, but this latest turn of events might be too scandalous even for him"-- "Stone Barrington is enjoying a round of golf in Key West when the game is violently interrupted--and it seems as if the target of the disturbance may have been one of his fellow players, the brilliant businesswoman behind a software startup on the cutting edge of technology. Soon, it becomes clear...

It seems like just another quiet night at Elaine's. Stone Barrington and his former cop partner, Dino, are enjoying some pasta when former client Herbie Fisher approaches him with a briefcase containing $14 million in cash. Herbie claims to have won the money on a lucky lotto ticket, but when a single gunshot narrowly misses his head, Stone and Dino suspect Herbie might need a bodyguard and a private investigator, too.

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.

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....