Quite good. 1st in a series of 64 books! … Hmm …

Stuart Woods published multiple books every year over his career.

New York Dead (1991) is the first novel in the Stone Barrington series. 

Barrington is a detective forced to retire from the sexist, racist, corrupt N.Y. Police force because of a cover-up. He decides to become a lawyer/private investigator.

An intriguing premise. ➙ Barrington happens to see a woman jump / fall (?) from a 12 story balcony. Shockingly, she’s still alive when put into the ambulance.

BUT the ambulance has an accident a few blocks distant — and the woman disappears.

Kidnapped? Killed?

SOMEBODY doesn’t want Barrington to find out.

There is a lot of sex in this novel.