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Violence
Some
Moderate violence — a suspicious death at sea; the legal proceedings; confrontations
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Moderate — adult romantic content; Stone's Caribbean relationships
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild — island social life
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
The husband's death — accident, suicide, or murder; the wife's suspicious calm; the island justice system
What this book is about
A sailing yacht arrives in the British Virgin Islands — crewed only by a beautiful woman whose husband is dead at sea. Stone Barrington is vacationing nearby and gets entangled in the legal proceedings when the island's law requires a trial. Dead in the Water is the third Stone Barrington novel — one of the series' best; the Caribbean legal setting is both comic and tense.
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A suspicious death at sea — the legal proceeding on a Caribbean island
Adult romantic content
Third in the Stone Barrington series
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