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    Dirt

    By Stuart Woods

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    The second novel in the thrilling Stone Barrington Series by #1 New York Times Bestselling author Stuart Woods

    "Blackmail, murder, suspense, love—what else could you want in a book?" –Cosmopolitan

    Feared and loathed for her poison pen and ice queen persona, Amanda Dart has made her share of enemies. Then the tables are turned. An anonymous gossipmonger is faxing Amanda's personal and private peccadilloes to anyone who can read. Desperate to save her reputation, she enlists the help of New York lawyer and private investigator Stone Barrington to learn the identity of the faxer. And everyone in the world of tabloid journalism becomes a suspect.

    But the faxes don't stop. In fact, they get worse. And Stone winds up with more leads than one man can handle, until Amanda takes matters dangerously into her own hands and turns the world of gossip on its head. As the circle of suspects shrinks, Stone discovers that even the most respected members of the social scene will stop at nothing—even homicide—to clear their sullied names.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061747946
    Author

    Stuart Woods

    Stuart Woods is the author of more than forty novels, including the New York Times bestselling Stone Barrington and Holly Barker series. An avid sailor and pilot, he lives in New York City, Florida, and Maine.

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    • 4/5
      Feared and loathed for her poison pen and ice queen persona, Amanda Dart has made her share of enemies. Then the tables are turned. An anonymous gossipmonger is faxing Amanda's personal and private peccadilloes to anyone who can read. Desperate to save her reputation, she enlists the help of New York lawyer and private investigator Stone Barrington to learn the identity of the faxer. And everyone in the world of tabloid journalism becomes a suspect.
    • 2/5
      I believe this was the only Stuart Woods book that I didn't like.
    • 2/5
      Gossip maven becomes a target of blackmail--it doesn't get better than that, does it? Stuart Woods stories along quickly and the main character has sex with most of the females in the book. This book's a light little "whodunit" story, with very little character depth or development. Woods is a great suspense author and knows how to keep his readers interested but the Stone Barrington series is trashy.
    • 3/5
      Ok story about the investigation of the source of a series of embarassing leasks about a scandal journalist. Things turn nasty and involve a lot more than simple scandal.
    • 3/5
      Another great one - Gossip maven becomes a target of blackmail.Did you ever notice that Stuart Woods never describes how Stone Barrington looks? He likes to leave that up to your imagination. I'm thinking Thorsten Kaye (Zach Slater) from All My Children.
    • 3/5
      Well, seems not to be an improvement from the first. I kept wondering from the start if this was where the tv series Dirt originated and that thought stayed as a distraction while I was reading. Everything is just there, there are no real thrills :(
    • 1/5

      Once upon a time there was a halfway decent thriller writer called Stuart Woods. I wonder whatever happened to him? I can't begin to tell you all the reasons I disliked this book, from the dire plotting to the snobbishness to the to the ghastly characters to the badly written smut.

      Try something like his much earlier Under the Lake instead.
    • 4/5
      Another popcorn book....fun, fast, and filled with what they term as "naughty fun".
    • 4/5
      wild
    • 3/5
      I had never read anything by Stuart Woods before; I didn’t think the works of the prolific author of thrillers would be my cup of tea. I tried this one on a dare of sorts, and I must say, it was at least readable, despite its characters’ conspicuous consumption, casual misogyny, and homophobia. I don’t think I will be continuing the series, however.