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Swimming to Catalina (1998)

par Stuart Woods

Séries: Stone Barrington (4)

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: Stone Barrington thought he'd heard the last of former girlfriend Arrington after she left him to marry Vance Calder, Hollywood's hottest star. The last thing Stone expected was a desperate call from Calder. Arrington has vanished, and her new fiancé wants Stone to come to LA and find her. In a town where the sharks drive Bentleys and no one can be trusted, Stone soon discovers he's drowning in a sea of empty clues that takes him from Bel Air to Malibu to Rodeo Drive. Running out of time and leads, he needs to keep his head above water and find Arrington fast, or end up swimming with the fishes himself.… (plus d'informations)

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dgmathis | Mar 15, 2023 |

Stone is called to California to help find his lost love, Arrington, now pregnant and married to Vance Calder, a famous actor. With his usual dalliances, Stone does not cotton to being swept out of town, and stays to solve the mystery, involving shady characters looking to acquire a movie studio to develop its extensive real estate holdings, (

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skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |

4th book in Stone Barrington series and very good. In this book Stone solves the kidnapping of his former lover, Arlington. (

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xKayx | Dec 14, 2020 |

Stone is still smarting fro his sudden breakup with brilliant, beautiful magazine writer Arrington Carrington, who has left him to marry Hollywood's hottest male star, Vance Calder. Then Calder calls Stone for help: Arrington has vanished without a trace, and Calder, refusing to call the police, wants Stone to find her. Arriving in LA with little to go on, Stone soon finds himself in the deepest kind of trouble as he nearly drowns in a sea of lost leads and empty clues that take him from Bel-Air to Malibu to Rodeo Drive. (

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jepeters333 | Feb 17, 2017 |

Stone is in L.A. to help his former lover's husband in a tangly intrigue set in the movie industry. He only has to shake hands with a beautiful woman and then they hop in the sack for marathon sex. It is amazing that he has the time or energy to solve the case. This one is pretty predictable -- why do I keep reading these trashy Stone Barrington novels? (

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Stone Barrington series - 10 titles - New York Dead - Dirt - Dead in the Water - Swimming Catalina - Worst Fears Realize par Stuart Woods

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Mendy Menenzez: "You got told, you better stay told."
Phillip Marlowe: "Oh sure. I do something you don't like and I'm swimming to Catalina with a streetcar on my back."
-- Raymond Chandler, [The Long Goodbye]

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

Stone Barrington thought he'd heard the last of former girlfriend Arrington after she left him to marry Vance Calder, Hollywood's hottest star. The last thing Stone expected was a desperate call from Calder. Arrington has vanished, and her new fiancé wants Stone to come to LA and find her.

In a town where the sharks drive Bentleys and no one can be trusted, Stone soon discovers he's drowning in a sea of empty clues that takes him from Bel Air to Malibu to Rodeo Drive. Running out of time and leads, he needs to keep his head above water and find Arrington fast, or end up swimming with the fishes himself.

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