Dirty Work

Dirty Work is the Stone Barrington novel, and it drops Stone into a case that starts as high-society divorce work before turning abruptly deadly. He is hired to help prove that a wealthy woman’s husband has been unfaithful, a task that seems to call for discreet surveillance rather than serious danger. But when the husband ends up dead and the woman connected to the affair disappears, Stone finds himself entangled in a much more volatile situation than he expected.

Set in the polished, moneyed world that often surrounds this series, the novel mixes Manhattan glamour with murder, shifting loyalties, and the kind of pressure that comes from being too close to people with influence and secrets. Readers can expect a brisk, sleek suspense story rather than a quiet detective novel, with Stone navigating scandal, suspicion, and escalating risk while trying to sort out what really happened. It fits squarely into the early Stone Barrington run, where crime, privilege, and personal exposure are tightly intertwined.

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