Stuart Woods'books are very easy reads and they keep your attention. This one did not disappoint! I'm looking forward to the new novel about Orchid Beach, Holly and Daisy that is out.
Five stars for this one. This was very exciting book - even my 81-year old father really liked it. Of course the Doberman Pinscher played a pivotal role, and that's what made the book really good.
This was the first Stuart Woods book I had ever read and I'm hooked. The characters are well developed. There is lots of intrigue and even action. I am looking forward to reading the other Holly Barker mysteries.

June E. (
junie) wrote on 2/10/2008...
1st in the Holly Baker books. Love this series

Janet M. (
janmc) wrote on 8/4/2007...
Woods Holly Barker character is always a good read. He makes her human in circumstances most of us luckily will never experience.

Christine P. (
chrissy77) wrote on 5/13/2007...
Talk about a bad first day. Major Holly Barker thought she was getting out of a mess when she left the army. She'd been sexually harassed by her superior, but the exigencies of the military legal system wound up wrecking her career. Orchid Beach seemed like the perfect place to start over. Though Chief Marley, an old family friend, was worried about some local increases in the drug trade, the Florida barrier island was not a crime mecca. As the new deputy police chief, Holly would be stepping on the toes of a few Orchid Beach P.D. regulars who were being overlooked for the job, but she would prove her worth in short order. After installing her trailer in Riverview, though, the bad news started to flood the Beach. The chief was found along the side of highway A1A with a bullet through the head, and his closest friend just had his skull blown apart with the chief's shotgun. Now, Holly is the acting chief in a town she hardly knows and with a police force that's full of animosity towards its newly minted leader. Just about the only consolation is that Holly has inherited Daisy, a Doberman who's about the best and most faithful friend a troubled gal could ask for; Daisy's a fierce defender of her master and she knows how to retrieve a beer on command.
Love the Holly Barker novels - entertaining.
Great story, with a no nonense plot. All in all a quick fun read.

Katherine R. (
laeta904) wrote on 4/16/2007...
The Holly Barker series includes some of my very favorite Stuart Woods novels!

Kristina W. (
neeny) wrote on 3/5/2007...
This was a fantastic book, just as all of Stuart Woods. This is a must read.