Unnatural Acts/Stuart Woods/307 pages

Apparently, Woods has decided that Stone Barrington's stories have all been told because even though this novel is advertised as a Stone Barrington novel, it is more about fleshing out the recurring character of Herbie Fisher. The biggest problem Stone has to deal with is Elaine's death (in the book and in real life), so he and Dino must find a new place to have dinner and be seen. P. J. Clarke's is the winner for now. Herbie, now known as Herb for professional reasons, is a perfect little Stone clone. His life just falls into place and even when the psychopathic-sociopath-with-violent-tendencies son of a billionaire client tries to first set him up and then physically harm him, he still comes out unscathed. Stone's unfailing good fortune is extending to all the people around him. I can't imagine what it would be like to live such a charmed, yet shallow, life. But I'm okay with that.