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Title: Hardly a page turner.
Review: Remarkably, this book is claimed to be a suspenseful mystery. Yet, the reader will learn after the first few chapters that there is little mystery and no suspense. Instead, Orchid Beach is a novel written at an elementary school reading level. It lacks no imagination and is predictable from the beginning. Woods attempts to grab the readers attention with a homicide and shooting but fails to hold on to the reader as he drags the story out with one dead end after another. Furthermore, the heroine, Holly Barker is hard to buy as the sharp detective Woods attempts to create. Woods tries to grab the readers attention by making her tom-boyish and sexual. But she just comes across as a naive tart who has a really smart dog.
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