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Orchid Blues

By: Stuart Woods
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Publisher's summary

Now the best-selling author brings back his small-town chief of police - and her extraordinary Doberman, Daisy - for another exhilarating adventure....

When Holly's wedding festivities are shattered by a brutal robbery, she vows to find the culprits. With nothing to go on but the inexplicable killing of an innocent bystander, Holly discovers evidence that leads her into the midst of a clan whose members are as mysterious as they are zealous. Holly's father, Ham, a retired army master sergeant, is her ticket into their strange world. What he finds there boggles the mind and sucks them all - Holly, Ham, and Daisy - into a whirlpool of crazed criminality from which even the FBI can't save them....

©2002 Stuart Woods (P)2015 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"Punchy...engaging...genuinely suspenseful...Holly and Ham are engaging...with a lot of gumption and tough-talking banter between them." (The New York Times)

"Starts with a bang...his action scenes are clean and sharp." (Publishers Weekly)

"Fast paced and exciting...sure to please his fans." (Booklist)

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perfect book

loved it
perfect read. Stuart Woods best writer ever. need to read more book of his.

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Great series!

Being a retired Police Officer I am loving this series. Great story lines and the narrator has become one if my favorites.

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A Fantastic Book

I Loved this book. Knowing how the characters evolve helps, as does Daisy, she's Wonderful!

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The mystery and suspense.

I liked the story and uncertainty. It was also suspenseful and mysterious! I loved the speaker or narrator!

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20 Year Old Novel

This novel was written more than 20 years ago, which makes the WOKE criticism a joke. Ironically, the author does an amazing job of describing the current political cult of hate who also wants to violently overturn our government. Sadly, clan is alive and active in present day Florida.

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Listened to it a 2nd time

I enjoy listening to the Holly Barker series from Stewart Woods. Just wish there were more of them.

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Decent Plot

Voices were annoying sometimes but the plot was good. Harry Crisp voice needed to be deeper

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Stuart Woods is fantastic

entertaining, great read,Stuart Woods is a great story teller, characters are fun and full of life


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Good Story Poor voice Men sound like women

Would you consider the audio edition of Orchid Blues to be better than the print version?

haven't read the printed version, the audio is good as a story line and plot.

What did you like best about this story?

Another good Holly Barker series

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

would have been better with a Male reader.

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Neither

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Keep them coming

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Anti-White, Anti-South, Anti-Right Political Propaganda Ticking Every Woke Box Pretending to be fiction worth publishing

This race-baiting, Neo-Nazi, White Supremacy crap used as the basis for fictional stories is so old and tired I cannot believe it keeps getting published. Had high hopes for this series but can’t stomach anymore of the nonsense. The group described in this mess of a book is representative of such a tiny fraction of the country you’ll never meet one of them, yet Woke authors, who seem to know very little about anything they use to create their narrative and push the Left’s agenda, write this same story again and again, and audible offers it up repeatedly. I’m guessing there are zero fiction offerings based on the very real, extremely dangerous left groups that vastly outnumber and out-destroy the few extreme right groups every time they don’t like something, i.e. election results. Sick to death of paying for crap like this and then having to fight audible to get a refund.

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