L.A. Dead (2001) is mainly important because this is the one where Stone Barrington marries a fiery Mafia princess in Venice.
His biggest mistake yet.
The celebration is cut short by a frantic phone call from halfway around the world.
A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar—and a former flame pining for Stone’s help in more ways than one.
When he lands amid Hollywood’s sun and sin, Stone must plumb the depths of film society to find the killer, before a court trial rips away his last chance at a life he once desperately wanted…
The woman Stone actually loves is accused of murder. Stone must defend her. … But is she guilty?
My personal favourite. Family of Man is a 21 feet tall set of sculptures … that reflect raceless, naked and expressionless human women and men. All sculptures are combined in groups and each one of them extend their hands in gesture of goodwill and fellowship.
The least impressive was this display of frogs, now damaged. It could be removed from GPSmyCity.
I’ve traveled 90+ nations and will DEFINITELY use this app into the future. It’s far superior to have an easy-to-follow highlights walk than to wander randomly through new cities.
Navigation worked fairly well for me.
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My biggest recommendation is that the app replace the current voice. It’s hilariously outdated compared with ALL the current realistic A.I. text to speech products.
Claire Heller Chapman has the perfect life. She’s a Harvard law professor and a high-profile criminal defense attorney known for taking on—and winning—tough cases. But one day this perfect life is shattered when her husband Tom Chapman is suddenly arrested by a team of government agents and accused of a brutal crime he insists he didn’t commit.
As Claire finds herself drawn closer into a web of duplicity and shadowy figures, she discovers that her husband is not who he says he is…that he once had a different name…even a different face.
Now Claire must put her reputation on the line to defend Tom in a top-secret court-martial. As she searches for the truth, she begins to unravel an insidious, high-level government conspiracy that threatens not only her career but also her life, and the lives of her loved ones.
All the while, she struggles to maintain her belief in her husband’s innocence—even when all the evidence seems to indicate that he is a cold-blooded murderer.
Tom returns home to find his wife, Karen, vanished—her car’s gone and it seems she left in a rush. She even left her purse—complete with phone and ID—behind.
Police knock on the door. Karen’s had a bad car crash and is suffering amnesia from concussion.
Near the crash a murder victim is found. Had Karen something to do with that?
Good television. A murder mystery, politics, immigration issues and murky espionage as well as complicated relationships.
Collateral is a four-part British television drama …
… stars Carey Mulligan as DI Kip Glaspie, assigned to investigate the shooting of a pizza delivery rider in inner-city southwest London. …
… a complex web of characters who are all somehow connected with the story, which addresses attitudes to immigration with the maltreatment of refugees and immigrants by both uncaring people-traffickers and indifferent state agencies …
On the other hand, he’s hobnobbing with the rich and famous. Staying in a luxurious hotel. Driving unique and expensive vehicles.
When sidekick Dino Bacchetti of the NY Police arrives — a fish out of water — it gets really funny. 😀
The plot is complicated and confusing for most of the book. That’s OK because we are mainly enjoying all the many, many mistakes made by Barrington. Almost nothing goes right, not even the many beautiful women throwing themselves at him.
Barrington is just as confused as we are.
As someone put it on Goodreads “Anyone who gave this book a bad review might want to re-think why they read Stuart Woods’ novels. They are not classic literature. They are escapist fiction. You need to check your disbelief at the door.”
Actually, this might be a good entry point for anyone considering starting up with this long series of murder mystery novels.
By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, the police were up to fifteen bodies and counting. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, when Lucas began to investigate, he made some disturbing discoveries of his own. The victims had been killed over a great many years, one every summer, regular as clockwork. How could this have happened without anybody noticing?
Because one thing was for sure: the killer had to live close by. He was probably even someone they saw every day….
I’d started with the first books in the Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods. And found them worth reading.
Funny. Engaging.
AbsurdJames Bondy escapism.
Stone Barrington, a former NYPD detective turned lawyer, who is of counsel to a prestigious law firm and handles sensitive cases for the firm’s prominent clients, but cases with which the firm nonetheless does not wish to be publicly associated.
As such, Barrington commands exorbitant fees, and a strong cast of recurring characters such as his ex-partner Dino Bacchetti, frequent use of the restaurant Elaine’s on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City as a setting, and Stone’s frequent exploits with women, travel, and fine dining.
Rick McCharles 