04308cam a2200433 4500 289413616 TxAuBib 20170409120000.0 ||||||s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101098387 1101098384 B002DYMB58 Amazon c4709723-8bf7-4155-8799-eea2cb266a63 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 252512 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Woods, Stuart. Orchid Blues [Bridges eBook] : Holly Barker Series, Book 2. Penguin Publishing Group, 2002. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 378kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. holly barker. suspense. florida. Fiction. mystery. HTML:October 1, 2001 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 fiancé 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. But in between there are a lot of empty spaces. 16-city author tour.. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:Now the bestselling 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.... . Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-04-08 23:00:03. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=c4709723-8bf7-4155-8799-eea2cb266a63 https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/C47/097/23/OrchidBlues9781101098387.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C4709723-8BF7-4155-8799-EEA2CB266A63&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/C47/097/23/OrchidBlues9781101098387.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C4709723-8BF7-4155-8799-EEA2CB266A63&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/C47/097/23/OrchidBlues9781101098387.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C4709723-8BF7-4155-8799-EEA2CB266A63&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)