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Title details for Hothouse Orchid by Stuart Woods - Available

Hothouse Orchid

#6 in series

by Stuart Woods
Carrington MacDuffie
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After years on the trail of an internationally wanted terrorist, the CIA thinks Special Agent Holly Baker might need a long vacation. So Holly returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida, where she had been a police chief for many years. With its sun-drenched beaches, crowded marinas, and luxurious oceanfront homes, it seems like the ideal coastal retreat. But a very unpleasant surprise awaits Holly. The police department now is entirely different from the one she commanded. An old danger Holly knows only too well has resurfaced, and her beloved hometown might not be the sanctuary she’d thought.
With his usual crackling action and irresistible sense of place, HOTHOUSE ORCHID is Stuart Woods at his best.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Holly Barker

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 22, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307577764
      • File size: 219242 KB
      • Duration: 07:36:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 13, 2009
      Bestseller Woods piles on the coincidences in his modestly entertaining fifth thriller to feature CIA agent Holly Barker (after Iron Orchid
      ). When Holly returns home to Orchid Beach, Fla., where she was once chief of police, she's reunited with both welcome and unwelcome figures from her past. Renegade ex-CIA agent Teddy Fay, sporting a new identity, has chosen to settle in nearby Vero Beach. Lauren Cade, a former military comrade, is now a sergeant with the Florida State Patrol. Holly is shocked to learn that James Bruno, her former commanding officer who was tried and acquitted of raping Lauren and who once tried to rape Holly herself, is Orchid Beach's new police chief. Holly's not so shocked to learn that a serial killer and rapist is at work in the area. Woods glibly lets the reader stay well ahead of the legal posse tracking the killer while still keeping a card or two up his sleeve. Playful dialogue and romantic sexual escapades lighten the atmosphere.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      CIA Special Agent Holly Baker has been ordered to take a vacation, so off she goes to her house in Orchid Beach, Florida, where she immediately becomes involved in a case of serial rape and murder. Carrington MacDuffie delivers a good performance--Holly's voice is appropriately light, and the masculine voices are excellent. However, the glib, mundane dialogue combined with narrative that is neither exciting nor dramatic is hard for even MacDuffie to overcome. There's little in this book that grabs the listener, despite an interesting plot idea. Those who have read Woods's earlier books will be especially disappointed. S.S.R. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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