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Title: Blood Orchid by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0-451-20881-1 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.08 (36 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Standard Woods
Comment: This book is standard Stuart Woods: lightly entertaining and a quick read featuring familiar characters and larger-than-life crime. It is three-and-a-half star material all the way.
In this story, Holly Barker, police chief for Orchid Beach, becomes embroiled in a real estate scheme that has murders attached to it. Befriending a developer who is almost killed himself, Holly gets involved from the inside as well as in her cop role. What follows is the sort of quick paced action one expects out of one of Woods's books.
As entertaining as the book is, it's also far from perfect. Any veteran mystery reader will have the villain pegged pretty quickly and there are other bits of silliness. For example, I doubt most people would think that "Blood Orchid" would be a good name for a housing development.
On the other hand, Holly is much more interesting than Woods's principal series character, Stuart Barrington, although not as developed as Will Lee. For a fun quick read, this book fits the bill, but in the grand pool of mysteries, this book is definitely on the shallow end.
Rating: 3
Summary: Barker & Co. Return for a Re-Match
Comment: Holly Barker, her dad Ham and her loyal Doberman Daisy return for a reprise of her work and love life in Orchid Beach, Florida. In this installment, which is set approximately a year after Holly loses the man of her dreams during a bank robbery, Holly finds another guy and that the criminal element has returned to her new home town with a vengeance.
To be sure, this is nothing more than a continuation of the previous plot line with some new characters and twists. In the latest plot, the reader will witness Holly taking flying lessons, landing on a beach, taking off in a less than flight-worthy aircraft and so on. She also jumps into bed with a new flame, an FBI agent allegedly working undercover in her jurisdiction. It seems to me as if author Stuart Woods is trying to turn Holly Barker into the female version of Stone Barrington.
In any case, the plotline is simple if not expected, the book reads quickly and is just as easily forgotten. This is truly a beach-read or one for a cold, snowed in afternoon. It is nothing special, even in the overcrowded detective genre. It's real saving grace is that it keeps Holly, Ham and Daisy alive as a parallel set of characters to populate the novellas that Stuart Woods puts out between the more enjoyable Stone Barrington series.
Rating: 1
Summary: what the???
Comment: I LOVE Stuart Woods. I have read pretty near all of his books. However, this book bombed! WHY? Because it is just so far fetched it's unreal. Holly Barker is the chief of police in Orchid Beach, some small town that no one has ever heard of. She seems to go outside of her jurisdiction more in this book then five local cops do in a life time. She hooks up with an undercover FBI agent in the book, and trusts and relies on him, yet she doesn't even know what his undercover case is. It's just way too long and dragged out. During the first 4-5 chapters, you are able to figure out who the "bad guy" is, and you are forced to wade through 300 more pages of her not realizing it's him, and befriending him. Stick to Stone Barrington, he is at least more credible then this.
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Title: Orchid Blues by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0451206711 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Orchid Beach by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0061013412 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dirty Work by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0399149821 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Short Forever by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0451208080 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cold Paradise by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0451205626 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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