My friend, Chris Orcutt, did a two-day free promotion of his novel, A Real Piece of Work on Wednesday and Thursday and got to #4 overall in the Best Sellers in Kindle eBooks Top 100 Free list. After returning it to the $4.99 list price on Friday and Saturday, he is just about to break into the Kindle eBooks Top 100 Paid list ... currently at #120 overall. His ranks in more specific categories are:
#10 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary
#10 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Literary Fiction
#16 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery
Here's how I recently reviewed it at Amazon:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Move over Spenser and make room for Dakota Stevens, February 6, 2012
Review by Dick Peterson "Red Stick Writer" (Fairway, KS USA)
This review is from: A Real Piece of Work (The Dakota Stevens Mysteries) (Kindle Edition)
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 the art world. As soon as he released A Real Piece of Work, the author announced a second Dakota Stevens mystery was in the can, so to speak. I'm hoping other readers will join me in pressuring him to uncan it sooner rather than later, as well as to chronicle more adventures of my new favorite PI. He solves the case by hook or by crook and sometimes by the book, but he solves it.
Do yourself a favor and buy the Kindle Edition of this exciting mystery novel, the first of the Dakota Stevens Mystery series. That way you'll be all caught up when the second book in the series comes out soon. Click on the link below to get to the A Real Piece of Work page at Amazon.
You'll be coming back here to thank me for tipping you Orcutt's direction. When you're done reading, also go back to Amazon to post a review.
