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Stuart Woods is "a no-nonsense, slam-bang storyteller." (Chicago Tribune) Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington projects out for the west-coast-and out on the branch-within this "fashionable whodunit" (Detroit News) full of love and killing in the best-selling writer of The Work and Worst Fears Realized. Rockis visit to Venice-having a hot Mafia queen-is cut short by way of a frantic telephone call from half of a world away. A high profile homicide has L A within an upheaval and has a former fire pining for Rockis aid-in more ways than one,