Coming over the heels of his bestselling Choke, and Imperfect Strangers, Stuart Woods brings back one of his best loved character types, Stone Barrington, who lately appears in NY Dead, in an easy paced, rollercoaster trip through the high-profile world of celebrity gossip.

Feared and disliked for both her poison pen and snow queen persona, bi-coastal gossip columnist Amanda Dart finds the tables have transformed. The unwitting sufferer of an anonymous gossipmonger who is faxing to national about Dirt opinion makers an outrageous scandal sheet uncovering the details of her on-going indiscretions having a nationally known takeover artist, Amanda enlists the help of New York lawyer and investigator Rock Barrington to understand the identity from the faxer. Everybody is usually a suspect in the world of tabloid journalism. As the faxes grow more scathing and commence to expose the peccadilloes of not merely Amanda but additional members of the gossip community, Barrington winds up with an increase of prospects than he can handle, and an employer who is going to take matters dangerously into her own hands. The globe of gossip is definitely fired up its mind. It becomes clear to Rock that even the most respected members of the sociable scene will minimize at nothing at all – also murder – to apparent their names.

Irresistible as just good gossip could be, Dirt and grime is certainly a mesmerising tale of betrayal and murder established against a backdrop from the fast-paced Manhattan tabloid business; it is filled up with the twists and becomes that have produced Stuart Woods’s novels international hits.