description: Smart, attractive, and fiercely independent, Major Holly Barker, the army brat daughter of a master sergeant, has been forced into early retirement at the age of thirty-seven as the result of a scandalous sexual harassment case. With the help of her dad, she makes the move to civilian life, becoming deputy chief of police in Orchid Beach, Florida.But below the calm, sunny surface of this sleepy, well-to-do coastal island town lies a web of evil and deceit that escalates when a colleague and another associate are brutally gunned down. Alone, an outsider with no clues to go on, finding the killers won't be easy for Holly, and her seemingly low-key new career soon thrusts her into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Surrounded by a staff of officers she neither knows nor trusts, Holly finds help in a most unexpected source -- Daisy, a Doberman of exceptional intelligence and loyalty who quickly becomes her inseparable companion and protector. The closer she gets to unraveling the mystery of Orchid Beach, however, the nearer Holly comes to a danger darker and more deadly than any she could have ever anticipated.
language: English
title: Orchid Beach
titlecomplete: Orchid Beach (Holly Barker, #1)
characters: Daisy (Orchid Beach), Mrs. Eleanor Warner, Sammy and Tanya, Detective Sergeant Bob Hurst, James Bruno, John Westover, Abraham Lincoln (L is for Lawless), Chet Marley, Walter Hagen (Orchid Beach), Captain Noble, Jackson Oxenhandler, Jane Grey (Orchid Beach), Dr. Fred Harper, Harvey Penick (Orchid Beach), Lieutenant Hurd Wallace, Judge Sandra Wheeler, Jack Craig, Marty Skene, Sara Rodriguez, Ben Hogan (Orchid Beach), J. Edgar Hoover (Worst Fears Realized), Charlie Peterson, Rita Morales / Rita Garcia, Ted Turner (Orchid Beach), Hank Doherty, Harry Crisp, Doris (Orchid Beach), Fidel Castro (L is for Lawless), The aerial mapping guy, Max Shulman (Orchid Beach), Johnny Malone, Mr. Diego Ramirez, Manuel Noriega (Orchid Beach), Gene Sarazen (Orchid Beach), Carla (Orchid Beach), Mary White, Patrolman Jimmy Weathers, Evelyn Martin, Hamilton Barker, The brigadier-general (Orchid Beach), Dr. Green (Orchid Beach), Bobby Jones (Orchid Beach), Everett Schwartz, Elwood Mosely, Ted Michaels, Holly Barker, Harrison Ford (Orchid Beach)
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Action, Fiction, Detective, Murder Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 12348
places: Orchid Beach, Florida
series: Holly Barker