DARK HARBOR BY STUART WOODS

3-1/2 STARS Highly Enjoyable!

This book is part of a 12 part series by Stuart Woods. If you have ever read any of his books you will enjoy this one. Dark Harbor brings us the perfect mix of intrigue and swift suspense that legions of fans have come to expect from the author.


This book features our hero Stone Barrington.

Meet Stone....

Stone is an urban sophisticate, hanging out at Elaine's (A trendy Resturant) in New York with his friends. Wealthy by inheritance, Stone lives the life; a Manhattan townhouse, private plane, lots of women. Oh yes, he practices law too, but not so often that it interferes with his dodging bullets or rescuing the women he loves from the clutches of evil. Stone also spent 14 years on the NYPD, but had to retire when he was shot in the knee.

One day Stone is at Elaine's with his friend, NYPD Lieutenant Dino Bacchetti when another friend, CIA agent Lance Cabot shows.

Lance starts asking Stone what he knows about a man named Dick Stone. Stone explains that Dick is his cousin with whom he has not seen in many years. Suddenly Lance tells Stone that his cousin Dick and his family are dead in an apparent murder/sucide.

My! Would you believe that just the other day, Stone received a sealed package from cousin Dick with instructions that it be opened only in the event of his death. This is obviously an appropriate time to open it. Surprisingly, Stone has been named executor and left a house in Dark Harbor, Maine.

Now it turns out that cousin Dick was a bigshot in the CIA and was about to get a huge promotion. Lance Cabot asks Stone to help investigate Dick's death.

And we're off to the races. Stone goes to Dark Harbor (in his own plane, of course) and begins to poke around. Why it looks like cousin Dick, his wife and daughter were murdered! But by whom on an island with only a few hundred permanent residents? Could it be a revenge plot against the CIA? Well, there are bunch of other retired CIA officers living on the island too . . .

But there's Dick's brother as well, who has been disinherited. And now bodies start popping up all over the place. One of the CIA retirees bites the dust as does a local teenage girl.

At every step Stone knows he is being watched by Dick's family-and one of them just may be a killer.

I'll not reveal any more so as not to impair your enjoyment of this delightful book.

This book is an easy read. The characters are surprisingly robust and the plot has lots of surprises. This is a great read for the beach, a rainy afternoon, a long flight or any time you just want to enjoy a master of the police procedural at work. The author brings a very special, very enjoyable flavor to the art of mystery. It's light, but certainly not offensively so and it's definitively fun to be in the company of Stone Barrington and his friends.

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Until Next Time!

Arianna :)

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