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Stone Barrington is, once again, right at home in New York City; but this time he is joined by the tenacious Holly Barker, the lady police chief of Orchid Island, Florida. Holly finally makes it to Manhattan, hot on the trail of an evil fugitive from her jurisdiction. Stone is, well, glad to see her, right up until the moment when her presence creates a great danger to both of them-and to their surprise, she becomes the pursued, not the pursuer.

Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that 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. Suddenly he is 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...

Stone Barrington embarks on his most dangerous adventure yet when he takes on a job as a lawyer for a sleazy and clueless con man-and ends up getting embroiled in the underworld of the New York mafia. It started out as just another late night at Elaine's, where Stone was eating a porterhouse steak and enjoying the company of his friends. But when Herbie Fisher, a notoriously not-so-sharp swindler, walked in, the pleasant atmosphere turned to ice....

Arriving in London to find a young woman, who has been seen in the company of an unsavory gentleman, for a client, Stone Barrington stumbles upon a deadly rivalry between two spies and is implicated in a horrifying double murder.

Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington's trip to Venice, with a fiery Mafia princess, is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and has a former flame pining for Stone's help-in more ways than one.

"Suave Manhattan cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington is back on his home turf caught between a filthy rich conman--who's just become his client--and a beautiful prosecutor."--Publisher's description.

A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three hideous murders he swears--in the face of irrefutable evidence--he did not commit. A psychologist who claims to believe the convict spends hours with the man in his death row cell, and ultimately watches in the gallery as the lethal injection is administered. His work completed, the psychologist heads back to New York City to attend to unfinished business. Meanwhile, Scudder agrees to investigate...

A walk on the wild side of Brooklyn's criminal underclass with a hero known as "The Human Freakshow," a would-be detective also answering to the name of Lionel Essrog. Essrog is a victim of Tourette's Syndrome; hapless and veering out of control, he fights himself and his disease.

The economy has hit the private investigator business hard, and lately, Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she tells him, who's escaped from poverty via marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a stipend. But she says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help.

Walter Mosley presents his second mystery featuring Leonid McGill, a hard-drinking, hard-smoking gumshoe in the midst of crime-swept Manhattan. Here, the married McGill splits up with his mistress only to have her new boyfriend start angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime office space. Furthermore, his two sons are causing a great deal of turmoil for the McGill family, and Alfonse Rinaldo, the powerful controller of City Hall, has come to Leonid...