Review: Dakota & Svetlana will keep you up all night!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2012
The duo of Dakota Stevens and his associate Svetlana Krüsh are back again in Chris Orcutt's second book in the series.  Don't start this book if you need to sleep or be somewhere for an appointment!An eccentric heiress wants to interview them for job to look into the death of her brother in a faux western town in Montana; brother has created a resort set in the late 1800's.  The detectives are driven to a vast estate on Long Island in a Bentley; the driver is the young niece and ward of the heiress.  Dakota and Svetlana are hired. In the following days, someone tries to kill Dakota and a few minor characters die. Then it is off to Montana!This could be called "expensive cars, planes, trains, boats, & horses." All of these modes of transportation are in this book.As in book #1 of the Dakota and Svetlana series "A Real Piece of Work," emphasis is on the athletic skills and gun expertise of Dakota, and the talents of the multilingual Svetlana and her analytical mind.  Dakota is obviously a macho man, but he does have his almost Southern-gentleman style when it's needed.We have possible bad people, shady people, sexy women, Native Americans, and other interesting characters.  Chris Orcutt makes his characters seem so real that I would recognize them if they walked out of the book and down my street.  Chris also tosses humor into the story; rare and refreshing to find in a detective novel.Just when you think you have it figured out, you are wrong!  Twists and turns until the end of the book.  I was sad when this book ended, as I understand that book #3 in the series is still being written.  Can't wait for more adventures of Dakota and Svetlana!