Blood Orchid
Product Description
Chief of Police Holly Barker returns in her third suspenseful adventure-along with her father Ham and Daisy the Doberman. This time, they get introduced to the cutthroat world of Florida real estate…and uncover a scam as dangerous as it is lucrative…. More >>
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…and by the way, I don’t know Stuart Woods – but wish I did. He would be a lot of fun as a friend.
Different Strokes for Different Folks……….and there are a lot of us out there that do enjoy these books AND PROUD OF IT.
Woods is entertaining – and I for one enjoy a refreshing fun entertaining novel like Blood Orchid. I don’t take it seriously … for that I have a life.
Rating: 5 / 5
In this one, small town Police Chief Holly Barker is faced with possible big time mob connections. Is it drugs? Money laundering? Simply high-stakes real estate? One thing for certain, it involves murder and the bodies are piling up. Holly finds a new love interest (as does her father Ham) and once again, the FBI gets involved, much to Holly’s consternation.
This is the second Holly Barker book I have read (gifts from a friend) and I really don’t think I’ll read any more. This one has a bit more emotion than the first I read (Orchid Beach), but it still reads more like a police report – i.e. dull. I do like the character of Grant (Holly’s new love interest), but he’s really the only character in this book I cared about. Ham Barker isn’t in this one much, but I still like him – he’s good for some irreverent comic relief, and even FBI agent Harry Crisp started to show some life in this one. Holly, however is a grade A idiot. How the heck did she become Police Chief? I knew who was behind it all the moment the bullet hit the orchid pot! When someone breaks into her house (and this happens early on, so I’m not giving much away), her first reaction is that some pervert broke in to sniff her panties. WHAT? I literally cried out loud that “Your house is bugged, you moron!” She stumbles through things, blabbs to all and sundry about confidential and classified information that endangers her own life as well as others. She’s just too stupid to care about!
The final scene is cute, but I’m not so sure it was worth trudging through the rest of the book for.
Rating: 2 / 5
“Blood Orchid” by Stuart Woods is an engaging story that I enjoyed very much. The characters are lively, the dialogue crisp and, intresting and, the plot anything, but predictable. An intresting combination.
John Savoy
Savoy International
Motion Pictures Inc.
Rating: 5 / 5
This author has had a few good efforts, “Chiefs” in particular. But since he has started w/the Stone Barrington series w/his main squeeze Carrington Barrington for god`s sake, he has fallen into the realm of Sidney Sheldon et all. No depth to either his characters or his story lines. Plots a 7th grader would reject I occasionaly pick one up ever hopeful but this condition is terminal. He will still sell his trash so he won`t work at his craft. Blood Orchid is truly a “quick read” little to pique ones ones curiosity or for that matter challenge you to think beyond the obvious. A “last resort”.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am unemployed. Perhaps I’m qualified to be a police chief of a town on the southern Florida coast.
When someone has obviously bugged my phone, I use it to coordinate strategy with the FBI during a crisis. When someone is obviously trying to kill me, I post a lone cop outside my home to protect me. Call me paranoid, but I’m not feeling secure. Certainly, when my Doberman, who is used to frolicking in the dunes alone, will not enjoy my company when she needs to relieve herself during a time that someone is trying to kill me. But Holly, she’s a different breed of law enforcer. She takes the dog for a walk. Uh-huh.
Someone who has bugged my phones is obviously incapable of knowing who I’m sleeping with, so when I’m on the lam, it would never occur to them that I’m at his home, which is just down the beach from my own home. It always helps to have enemies who are dumb as rocks. So dumb that I continue to commute to and from work each day and they have know clue where I’m currently living.
Here’s a gem. Page 200 of the paperback. “Harry, do you ever have the feeling that this business is bigger than…”
To which Harry, the ever-sharp FBI man responds, “No.”
Nothing like a Fed who can envision the possibilities.
I assumed who the bad guy was at the beginning of the book. Hmm…Maybe I should give some thought to being a novelist. I’m obviously qualified. At least I wouldn’t waste space with countless conversations that begin with, “Holly Barker”. Even an amateur knows a better way to get to the point than detail every trivial bit of conversation. But I guess that’s too much to expect of a professional writer who’s obviously on cruise control.
Rating: 2 / 5