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Move over Spenser and make room for Dakota Stevens
Orcutt’s characters have height, breadth, AND depth. Their personality, interesting quirks, and attitudes leap from the page. You’ll like them so much you’ll want to buy the action figures. (Personally, I'll be ordering the Svetlana doll.) New York’s metropolitan and upstate backdrops are vividly included as characters, as well. Beyond the relationships and geography, the story has grab, tempo, sophistication, and well-researched intricacies of t ...more
Orcutt’s characters have height, breadth, AND depth. Their personality, interesting quirks, and attitudes leap from the page. You’ll like them so much you’ll want to buy the action figures. (Personally, I'll be ordering the Svetlana doll.) New York’s metropolitan and upstate backdrops are vividly included as characters, as well. Beyond the relationships and geography, the story has grab, tempo, sophistication, and well-researched intricacies of t ...more
I have enjoyed all of the Spenser novels, but Dakota Stevens and his sassy sidekick Svetlana, are my new favorite detectives. A Real Piece of Work is the first in a series about a private investigator who truly investigates. In this story, what begins as a simple case of lost and found becomes a tangled multi-national, multi-generational mystery with twists and shocking revelations. If you pay attention to the details, armchair sleuths *may* be able to figure it out…but I doubt it.
This is really good.
