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1) Orchid Beach
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English
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Holly Barker, forced into early retirement from the army after losing a sexual harassment case, walks into a dangerous web of evil and deceit when she accepts the post of deputy police chief in Orchid Beach, Florida.
2) Iron orchid
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English
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Former Orchid Beach, Florida police chief Holly Barker joins an elite intelligence unit hunting down terrorists in the United States, and discovers that Teddy Fay, an ex-CIA wizard, thought to be dead, may be involved.
3) Chiefs
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English
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In the winter of I 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia-the naked, brutalized corpse of a young boy. It Is a crime too horrific to be ignored; the first of many that will span four decades, embroiling three separate police chiefs in a remarkable manhunt that will expose the hatreds, fears, dark secrets and festering wounds beneath the surface of their sleepy God-fearing community.
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CIA agent Holly Barker, placed on vacation after failing a second time to catch terrorist and ex-CIA agent Teddy Fay, returns to Orchid Beach, Florida, where she once served as police chief, to find that James Bruno, her former commanding officer who once tried to rape her, is now in her old job, and that a serial killer and rapist is at work in the area.
5) Blood orchid
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Blood Orchid is the third adventure of one of Stuart Woods's most engaging characters, Chief of Police Holly Barker. This time out, Holly is trying to get her life back together after the shattering loss of her fiance. With the help of her wily Doberman, Daisy, and her father, Ham, she throws herself back into the job with a vengeance. At a local restaurant, Holly and Ham meet a gentleman new to the area, rich and dapper developer Ed Shine, who has...
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Stone Barrington novels volume 1
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English
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"Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it’s pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out.
Suddenly he’s on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television...
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Stone Barrington novels volume 3
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English
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A woman docks a yacht in a Caribbean port, claiming her husband had a heart attack and she buried him at sea. The authorities note the $12-million insurance policy and charge her with murder. Vacationing lawyer Stone Barrington, whose girlfriend is away, comes to her aid.
8) Dirt
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Stone Barrington novels volume 2
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English
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Gossip columnist Amanda Dart gets a taste of her own medicine when a photograph arrives in her office showing her in bed with a married man. The sender threatens to make the photo public unless Amanda pays. PI Stone Barrington is hired to find the blackmailer. By the author of New York Dead.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 4
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When an actor's wife is abducted in Hollywood, the husband turns for help to lawyer Stone Barrington, the wife's ex-boyfriend. For Barrington, it is a dangerous assignment as the Mafia is involved, but he knows danger, having been a New York policeman.
10) Reckless abandon
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Stone Barrington novels volume 10
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English
Description
Attorney Stone Barrington teams up with police chief Holly Barker to find a killer who has fled Barker's home turf in Orchid Beach, Florida, hoping to gain anonymity in the streets of New York City.
11) Orchid blues
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Series
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Small-town police chief Holly Barker's life is torn apart by a brutal crime that threatens her happiness and her life, and her only hope of solving the crime is to put her father in the line of fire.
12) Santa Fe rules
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English
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Movie producer Wolf Willett finds himself charged in the triple murder of his wife, his friend, and a man originally identified as himself. Suffering from a memory loss, he turns to criminal attorney Ed Eagle to help him when another murder occurs.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
Description
Lawyer Stone Barrington of New York investigates a series of murders, apparently committed by a convict in a campaign of vengeance against people who put him away. Complicating the probe is that one of the murders was committed in Barrington's apartment and he is under suspicion.
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Rick Barron mysteries volume 1
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English
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Set in Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s, Woods introduces a new character Rich Barron, a sharp, capable detective on the Beverly Hills force, who found himself demoted after a run-in with his captain. He lands a job on the security detail for Centurion Pictures. Rick's easy charm earns him "the Prince of Beverly Hills" name, the white knight of movie stars, until he uncovers a murder cover-up and a blackmail scam that threatens the studio's business...
15) Palindrome
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English
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Tells a story that moves from the urban chaos of Atlanta and Los Angeles to untamed island hideaways, from moments of tender passion to acts of overwhelming violence.
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