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Santa Fe Dead (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
by Stuart Woods
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Thorndike Press (2008-05-02)
ISBN: 141040479X
EAN: 9781410404794
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 440 pages
SKU: LDEV0916503
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. Gently read copy in very good condition. No writing, no marking. LARGE PRINT.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Unabridged CDs • 7 CDs, 8 hours
New York Times bestseller Stuart Woods returns with a fast-paced thriller, starring Ed Eagle, the take-no-prisoners attorney from Santa Fe Rules and Short Straw.
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Customer Reviews
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Santa Fe Dead
Rating  (1)
Date: 2010-05-02
Wow!! "Santa Fe Dead" should have stayed dead....what a waste of time and paper..I usually try to write two good paragraphs for any review I submit, but this one begs my imagination. It is all too unreal to even be considered the least bit believable. Characters that are really stupid, including Barbara, the murderous wife, who after she escapes from the court house thru a window (big window or small Barbara) and then meets a multimillionaire whom she marries...to what end...to keep up on her vendetta...how shallow.
Stuart Woods has written more than thirty novels, and it must be his prior writings that have earned him his celebrity cause "Santa Fe Dead" doesn't deserve any laurels, and it makes me wonder what the critics are thinking when they rate this writing as being from a master of the unstoppably good read (inside cover comment). Sorry Stu, you lost me with this one.
E.J. Walden, author of "Operation Snow Owl)
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sant Fe Dea
Rating  (5)
Date: 2009-09-12
I am really into Stuart Woods books and found getting them for less dollars was a great way to buy. The order was fast and the condition of the books wonderful!
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Fast delivery
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-08-28
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book was in an excellent condition and it was delivered fast. Thank you.
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Not a Clean Read
Rating (1)
Date: 2009-06-13
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
A friend recommended this book to me... the first I've read by this author. I was looking for a good mystery. Unfortunately, this book does not work the brain at all. What a lazy, unimaginative writer, to take such a contrived plot, give the characters unlimited money to do whatever far-fetched thing you want, and throw in some sex scenes to interest the voyeurists... blah! Those of you who like this book must not realize that there are great writers out there with creative, imaginative stories to tell. No thank you, I will not be reading any of Stuart Woods' other books.
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Light entertainment, very light entertainment
Rating  (3)
Date: 2009-05-17
Barbara Eagle (exwife of lawyer Ed Eagle) on trial for murder, escapes while the jury is deliberating, but is found not guilty. Apparently independently, actress Susanna Wilde (Ed's girlfriend) shoots her ex-husband and movie producer Donald Wells (Ed's client) hires his stuntman Jack Cato to kill his (Donald's) rich wife and her child. Barbara marries billionaire Walter Keeler, who is killed in an auto accident. Joe Wylan (Walter's lawyer) alters Walter's will after learning from Ed that Barbara is a psychopath. Through her movie-producer boyfriend Jimmy Long, Barbara (now Keeler) hires Jack Cato to kill Susanna Wilde in revenge, but Susanna survives. That's the setup, albeit it takes up half of the novel. Convolutions continue to proliferate.
Confused yet? And those are only the major characters. Over a dozen supporting characters include numerous policemen and policewomen, private detectives, the district attorney, the various lawyers' partners/assistants, boyfriends, girlfriends, and many others. Perhaps a dozen other characters in back-stories are mentioned.
Unfortunately, this "cast of thousands" does not contain a single "human being" (to use terminology from a different Stuart Woods novel), that is, I found none of them sympathetic or appealing. Feel free to cheer for your choice of the bad guys--there is no chance of anyone you've grown fond of getting hurt. Sure, there are loose ends, but who cares?
The novel strictly light-weight, but very entertaining. A good book for those moments in life when you don't need any more stress---not even the stress of 3-hour emotional commitment to a fictional character.
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