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Orchid Blues (Holly Barker Novels) by Woods, Stuart is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers WeeklyThis 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 lifele

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Author
Woods, Stuart
Publisher
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780451206718
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Adventure, True Crime, Literary Fiction
Rating
3.93 / 5 (4,909 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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