I love it. Stone Barrington is one of my favorite reads. It is what you expect from Stone Barrington. Fine dining, top-shelf booze, private jet travels, mysteries and spontaneous sex. Leaves you wanting more! I can wait to read more!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an e ARC of this book.
Part of a very long series of which I have only read a few. Doesn't give much back story but it is easy to follow the current plot. There is not a lot of depth of character development. Sex and bloody murder but a quick read.

This will be my last book from Stuart Woods. Well, unless I'm snowed in somewhere and there is one in the library, let's be honest.

While I enjoyed keeping up with Stone Barrington's escapades, I've not "enjoyed" the last few in the series. The characters are devolving and it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys anymore, which isn't my thing. Also, I'm a bit turned off by the sexual frivolity, which is not a great way to describe what I'm trying to say. Having sex with one person, putting them in a taxi, and then going home to have sex with someone else that you weren't expecting to see? Just weird and yucky to me.

And while I appreciate NetGalley and Penguin Group providing this ARC to me, please, please, check the math mistakes in it before sending it out. I'd rather see the numbers as xxxxxx than a blatant and simple math error.

All opinions are my own. Ahem.

As usual, Stone Barrington is living the rich life with fancy food, lots of women, many houses, a personal airplane, and mega money. These novels are one continuing story so readers keep reading the next one to find out what happens next. In this installment he gets involved with former prisoners, gamblers, and several women at the same time. This one is a little more raunchy than past novels. It is a quick, fast paced read but not one of Woods' best efforts.

I used to be a big Stone Barrington fan but the last several books by Stuart Woods are beginning to be repetitive and without much of a plot...not to mention the sex. Please Mr. Woods, bring the old professional Stone Barrington back. Class Act is not a class act.

In this fifty-eighth installment of the Stone Barrington series, a former client of Stone's reaches out, asking for help. Stone begins to face crimes and secrets that need to be kept under wraps. I always enjoy the fast=paced, quick-witted writing style of these books, and Class Act was no different. This is sure to keep readers engaged from beginning to end!

I always look forward to reading books about Stone Barrington and his gang, but this is a departure. Usually we see Stone gamboling about in beautiful houses with beautiful women, but this book is quite a departure. Within this multiple murder plot, the reader has to examine many questions of morality.

The lack of ethics demonstrated by the characters did provoke an examination of motives for murder. Is there ever justification? Stone’s total lack of discrimination in selecting sex partners, and even the role of a fictitious police commissioner during these days of political corruption can also be discussed.

This is not your frothy Stone Barrington novel, rather a morality tale. When does the good guy become the villain? When does friendship become a total ethical lapse?

Yes, I enjoyed this thinking man’s book, a departure from all the earlier novels. Thank you Netgalley for this unusual book.