ReadingTheDots@social.vivaldi.net"New York Dead (Stone Barrington, #1)" by Stuart Woods. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2009.
Book description: Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but he knows the little extra helps. Yet it really is pure luck that places him on a street in the dead of night just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out. Suddenly he's on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the shocking life and death of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman. No matter where he turns, the case is waiting for him, haunting his nights and turning his days into a living hell.
From the description I thought this series might be a good fit for me, but it turned out not to be. I don't generally do well wi series about people who strive for upper mobility and accumulation of wealth. The writing is fine, but Stone, as a character, doesn't interest me much. Not the author or the books fault at all.