num_pages: 325
description: From the New York Times -- bestselling author of Dirt, Choke, and Imperfect Strangers comes another thriller (more than 100,000 hardcover copies sold) of love, greed, and murder set against the shimmering waters off Antigua.Stone Barrington is back, and it will take all of the savvy New York investigator/lawyer's wits to stay afloat in this exciting, fast-paced tale of Caribbean island intrigue. This time, Barrington is the only hope of Allison Manning, a beautiful young woman on trial for murder after her wealthy husband mysteriously disappear.Together, the Mannings had set sail across the Atlantic, bound for the island of Antigua. But when Allison dropped anchor in St. Mark's harbor, she was alone, her husband presumed murdered. Facing conviction, she enlists the help of Barrington, who goes head-to-head with the island's minister of justice, Sir Winston Sutherland, a man who practices his own forms of justice. Inextricably caught in a swirling storm of local island mayhem, murder, and, of course, romance, Barrington discovers that, under the searing Caribbean sun, even the most convincing people aren't who they seem.
language: English
title: Dead In The Water
titlecomplete: Dead In The Water (Stone Barrington, #3)
characters: Bob Cantor, Hilary Kramer, Chester Appleton, Lord Cornwall, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Frank Stendahl, Dino Bacchetti, Reverend John Wills, Thomas Hardy (Dead in the Water), Marla Peters, Jake Burrows, Betty Southard, Harvey Simpson, Vance Calder, Arrington Carter Calder, Stone Barrington, Sir Leslie Hewitt, Sir Winston Sutherland, Colonel Buckler, Bill Eggers, Alma Hodges, Jim Forrester, The Judge (Dead in the Water), Libby Manning, The Coroner (Dead in the Water), The Prime Minister (Dead in the Water), Allison Manning (Dead in the Water)
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Legal Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Crime, Murder Mystery, Suspense
ratings_count: 11205
places: New York City, New York, Palm Beach, Florida, St. Marks, the Caribbean, Connecticut, Canary Islands
series: Stone Barrington
publisher: Harpercollins