New York dead

Format:

Book

Title:

New York dead

Author:

Woods, Stuart author

ISBN:

9780060179250

9780061711862

9780061094781

9780061090806

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

303 pages ; 25 cm.

Series title(s):

Stone Barrington novel ;

Number in series:

Summary:

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.

Personal Subject:

Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00827774

Subject(s):

Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y) -- Fiction.

New York (State) -- New York.

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Holds:

Available:*

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Author Notes

Stuart Woods was born in Manchester, Georgia on January 9, 1938. He received a B. A. in sociology from the University of Georgia in 1959. He worked in the advertising business and eventually wrote two non-fiction books entitled Blue Water, Green Skipper and A Romantic's Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and Ireland. His first novel, Chiefs, was published in 1981. It won an Edgar Award and was made into a TV miniseries starring Charlton Heston. His other works include the Stone Barrington series, the Holly Barker series, the Will Lee series, the Ed Eagle series, the Rick Barron series and the Teddy Fay series. He won France's Prix de Literature Policiere for Imperfect Strangers. His autobiography, An Extravagant Life, was published in June 2022. Stuart Woods died on July 22, 2022, at his home in Lichfield, Connecticut. He was 84.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Woods's latest (after Palindrome ) is a slick thriller set in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the stomping ground of Stone Barrington, a well-bred but unpretentious detective who, in a city of several million people, always ends up in the right place at the right time. Late one evening, as Stone trudges home from Elaine's Restaurant, popular TV newscaster Sasha Nijinsky plummets 12 stories from her terrace and lands on a heap of dirt 20 yards away from him--remarkably, still alive. Stone fails to apprehend the person who flees Sasha's penthouse and, after the ambulance carrying her collides with a fire truck, Sasha herself disappears. Despite the fact that no corpse is in evidence, the baffled NYPD eagerly pins a murder rap on Sasha's distraught lesbian lover. Stone refuses to accept his colleagues' pat solution and even maintains that Sasha might have survived thanks to skydiving training and her billowing, parachute-like robe. Bed-hopping TV newspeople, a sexy blonde judge sporting a red dress beneath her robes, a serial killer targeting cabbies and a creepy med-school dropout turned mortician who idolizes Sasha romp through this calculatedly melodramatic crime story all the way to its grisly B-movie finale. 75,000 first printing; $125,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Kirkus Review

Silky-smooth cop-thriller, Woods's first since Chiefs (1981)- -only this one's set not in the author's usual deep South (Palindrome, 1990; Grass Roots, 1989, etc.), but in N.Y.C., where Stone Barrington, lawyer-turned-cop, must solve the case of a skydiving celebrity. It's a case because veteran-skydiver/TV-news-star Sasha Nijinsky wasn't wearing a parachute when she dove from her 12th- story penthouse as Stone, passing by, watched in horror. Was she pushed? Stone wants to ask her but can't--not because she's dead, although everyone but Stone assumes she is (he thinks her skydiving skills may have kept her alive), but because she's missing: the ambulance that picked her up crashed, and when the smoked cleared, Nijinsky was gone. The police brass want Stone to find her or her body fast--and whoever might have pushed her. Stone combs the city (drawn in high glitz as the action veers from Elaine's to the Four Seasons to the U.N. Plaza) and digs out three likely culprits: snooty Barron Harkness, whose TV-anchorship Nijinsky coveted (and whose sexy assistant, Cary Hilliard, soon shares Stone's bed); creepy Herbert Van Fleet, an upscale necrophiliac undertaker who'd written thousands of love letters to Nijinsky; and stoical Hank Morgan, a lesbian makeup artist who was carrying on with the missing star. When evidence points to Morgan, the brass, hungry to close the case, railroad her arrest--leading to her suicide and, because of his expected protest, to Stone's dismissal from the force. Embittered, Stone hires on with a top law firm, only to work on a case that shows him the dark side of sexy Cary--but not nearly as dark as what awaits him when he gets a written invitation from Nijinsky to join her in Van Fleet's secret chamber of horrors.... Stylish suspense among the gray-flannel/black-velvet set, with a winsome hero and agreeable dollops of sex, gore, and demented mayhem: Woods's best since Under the Lake.

Library Journal Review

Flashy, name-dropping policeman Stone Barrington just happens to be passing by when celebrity Sasha Nijinsky dives from her 12-story New York penthouse and lands alive in fresh dirt. When the ambulance in which she is being rushed to the hospital collides with another vehicle, Sasha disappears. Barrington is obsessed: Is she alive? Who wanted her dead? Suspects abound in this cop drama/thriller. Was it Barron Harkness, her coanchor; Herbert Van Fleet, the undertaker who wrote her many letters; or Hank Morgan, the lesbian makeup artist who admits to being her lover? While searching for answers, Barrington has a sizzling affair with Harkness's assistant, Cary Hilliard. Things are not as they seem, and the end brings more than one surprise. Woods has many books to his credit including Edgar Allen Poe Award winner Chiefs, Palindrome, and White Cargo. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. does an excellent job with the narration. Recommended for all public libraries.DPatsy E. Gray, Huntsville P.L., AL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.