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Orchid Blues (Holly Barker, Bk 2)
Orchid Blues - Holly Barker, Bk 2
Author: Stuart Woods
Holly is on her way to be married to Jackson Oxenhandler, her steady beau, when her wedding day is shattered by a serious crime that takes place very close to home. A highly disciplined team of men hit a bank in Orchid Beach, Florida, and the waves from this robbery nearly capsize Holly's life. She vows to find these men-who have been carefu...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780399147777
ISBN-10: 0399147772
Publication Date: 10/29/2001
Pages: 290
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 54 ratings
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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reviewed Orchid Blues (Holly Barker, Bk 2) on + 149 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This second thriller in the series Woods inaugurated with Orchid Beach starts with a bang a literal one. While series heroine Holly Barker, a former military police commander turned police chief of smalltown Orchid Beach, Fla., waits at the local courthouse to marry lawyer Jackson Oxenhandler, her fianc gets himself killed in a shoot-out at Orchid Beach's bank. Once past this shocker of an opening, the thrills quickly deflate. Holly stifles a few sobs, gets back into uniform and sets off to track down the gunmen, a gang of highly organized robbers who planned to heist $4 million in payroll cash. It soon becomes clear that they aren't ordinary robbers, however, appearing to have some connection to a weird little town in a neighboring county, where the average resident is white, male and a gun nut. In the course of his meandering tale, Woods deepens his portraits of Holly and her father, Ham, a retired army noncom, and dog lovers should enjoy the antics of Daisy, the Doberman diva who is Holly's constant companion. Stone Barrington, the cop-turned-lawyer from such Woods bestsellers as L.A. Dead, makes a couple of important cameo appearances. But pages of lifeless dialogue and too much dead air in an already thin narrative eventually stifle most of the book's energy. Woods knows how law enforcement agencies from local cop shops to the Secret Service work, and his action scenes are clean and sharp.
Retrogram avatar reviewed Orchid Blues (Holly Barker, Bk 2) on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Love Stuart Woods and love Holly Barker so it was great to read. I think Harry needs more work. Doesn't ring quite true.
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The Holly Barker novels are really well written and entertaining with enough suspense to keep you interested.
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SUMARI avatar reviewed Orchid Blues (Holly Barker, Bk 2) on + 99 more book reviews
Mediocre read not up to his usual
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Great thriller! I couldn't put it down!
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Holly Barker novel. Good and very fast reading. Woods is getting clever: Stone Barrington has a small part as well as Will Lee. The plot was to kill Lee but we all know that will never happen.
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Holly Barker, police chief of Orchid Beach, FL, meets Stone Barrington. Her fiance is killed minutes before the wedding. Holly and her father, Ham, hunt the killers and get involved in more than a crew of bank robbers.

Stuart Woods up to par.
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T Riffic! Love anything Stuart Woods.
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First Holly Barker book I read, and I love it! Stuart Woods writes page turners!


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