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Read by Tony Roberts.

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When P.I. Stone Barrington crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress--and sometime lip model--Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price.

Light and breezy??? Those words must be euphemisms for sophomoric and trite. I purchased this soft porn novel through Audiobooks and after an afternoon of eye-rolling I deleted it as I was embarrassed to have such material on my iPod. As another reviewer stated, Woods is/was capable of fresh, innovative writing, such as Chiefs and Palindrome. Stuart, you've sunk to an all time low and lost a reader. Kiss me goodbye.

It should be pretty obvious by now that Woods has long ago ceased being any kind of rational fiction writer. His "plots" are somewhat less plausible than the James Bond or Walter Mitty fare and his attention to detail is....well, practically non-existent. It's like he just phones in his stories as he makes them up and no one even bothers to edit them. He can't even keep the names of his characters straight. Is it Mitzi or Mimi? Is it Philip Larkin or Philip Parsons --- and all this not only on the same page but often even in the same paragraph!!! <br /> <br />If you like the Walter Mitty shtick you may like killing some time reading his books on the beach or an airplane or whatever. Everyone in his stories is rich, beautiful/handsome, sexually adventurous and promiscuous. Also most everyone is a gourmet cook, art critic, private pilot who owns their own plane and/or NYPD Homicide Lieutenant who can fix any inconvenient legalities that might arise. What's not to like, right? Just don't get too invested in the plot because it will eventually fizzle into the utterly absurd for no reasons you can logically discern. Read it like you would a comic book...or else find a real novel by someone else.

Mr. Woods has written excellent books in the past -- I would give 5 stars to both Palindrome and Chiefs and would recommend these books to friends. "Kisser" however I could barely finish -- and the only reason I finished it was that I was on vacation and it was the only book I brought. This book makes no sense, the excessive sex scenes are unbelievable and overall it was simply: boring. I am giving Stone a break.

What a piece of garbage. I finished it yesterday and I'm still wincing. I continue to be embarrassed for Stuart Woods. His "work" over the last 8-10 years makes him appear nuttier than "Dolce." I defy him to write one book, just ONE, where he can recall all of his own characters names, (yes, Stuart, first AND last names) for the entire book. Speaking of Dolce I'm shocked he has kept her name straight for so long. I keep expecting his next book to have me reading about how "Dorothy" was hiding in the shadows with a gun, etc. <br /> <br />Please Mr. Woods, I beg of you, make a genuine effort to write something for us that is interesting, clever, doesn't contain irritatingly written and preposterous sex scenes...and CAREFULLY written (ie: if someone's name is Kerry Smith don't change it to Kerry White halfway though.) Thank you in advance.

Quite honestly, I have completely quit reading any of Stuart Woods books. I absolutely loved his first Stone Barrington books. I was totally hooked. For the last few years, they've been all the same. Then a couple of years ago he pulled a stunt that made everybody mad. He put two of his already published books into one and gave it a new title, which I consider a really cheap trick. <br />I have actually published 3-mystery novels of my own. I contacted Stuart Woods through his website asking for advise on publishing, and he was quite arrogant in his response. My books are about a 37 year-old Interior Designer named Madeline Fox. Blood & Wine, Deadly Referral and Fatal Intentions. If you want a good mystery like the early Stone Barrington's, read these.