Dead in the Water

nine featuring Stone Barrington—currently resides in Florida, New York City, and Maine.
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Critical Acclaim for
Stuart Woods and
DEAD IN THE WATER
    “Fast-paced, filled with enough humor, sex, and clever surprises all the way to the last page to make it thoroughly entertaining amusement.”
    — Publishers Weekly
    “Trying to make this neat tale last more than one sitting would be like staying up all night nursing a Godiva truffle.”
    — Kirkus Reviews , starred review
DIRT
    “Blackmail, murder, suspense, love—
what else could you want in a book?”
    — Cosmopolitan
    “Dirty fun.”
    — People
    “This slickly entertaining suspense displays Woods at the top of his game…. Subtly reminiscent of the waggish P.G. Wodehouse, Woods delivers a marvelously sophisticated, thoroughly modern, old-fashioned read.”
    — Publishers Weekly , starred review
    “There is something delightfully nasty about the way Stuart Woods settles every account in his crime capers. Even more delightful is the juggling act that lasts almost to the last page, when payoffs fall like autumn leaves.”
    — New York Daily News

Books by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington Novels
    New York Dead
    Dirt
    Dead in the Water
    Swimming to Catalina
    Worst Fears Realized
    L.A. Dead
    Cold Paradise
    The Short Forever
    Dirty Work
Holly Barker
    Orchid Beach
    Orchid Blues
    Blood Orchid
Will Lee
    Run Before the Wind
    Grass Roots
    The Run
Standalone Titles
    Chiefs
    Deep Lie
    Under the Lake
    White Cargo
    Palindrome
    Santa Fe Rules
    L.A. Times
    Dead Eyes
    Heat
    Imperfect Strangers
    Choke
Nonfiction
    Blue Water, Green Skipper
    A Romantic’s Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and England

Copyright
    This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    DEAD IN THE WATER . Copyright © 1997 by Stuart Woods. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    “We Are Very Different People”: Stuart Woods on Stone Barrington. This interview originally appeared in The Internet Writing Journal (R), http://www.writerswrite.com. Copyright © 1997–2003 by Writers Write, Inc. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
    EPub Edition © APRIL 2003 ISBN: 9780061801945
    A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers .
    First HarperPaperbacks printing: May 1998
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