This is the second novel in Chris Orcutt’s series about us, a novel that is already written. Once sales of A Real Piece of Work top 1,000 copies, he is promising to release it.
What is The Rich Are Different About?
Once again, here’s one of Orcutt’s own snippets about the book:
“The Rich Are Different, the second novel in Chris Orcutt’s Dakota Stevens mystery series, explores the rarefied world of a Long Island heiress and her murdered brother who owned an Old West resort in Montana. Going undercover as actors in a make-believe mining town straight out of 1885, Dakota and his associate, Svetlana Krüsh, hunt down the man’s killers, discovering a mother lode of a motive in the process.
“Like bullets from a Gatling gun, the suspects come fast and furious: eccentric heiresses, aimless party girls, greedy CEOs, catty thespians, sexy henchwomen, angry Native Americans, mysterious mobsters, menacing mercenaries, kinky housewives and contract killers. It’s a classic case of East meets West as Dakota and Svetlana follow a trail of clues that takes the reader from the sophisticated setting of The Great Gatsby to the forbidding land of Pale Rider.”
The car in which we were "summoned."
How true is The Rich Are Different to your actual case?
Well, the facts are the same, but once again Orcutt does glamorize our work a bit. For example, we were never whisked away in a suspect’s Learjet. But we did get summoned by our client, as he describes well at the beginning of the novel, and we were driven to her Long Island estate in a Bentley Arnage T. (That was an incredibly comfortable automobile ride.)
What will the cover look like?
All we know is that it will have the same basic design as A Real Piece of Work, but that the color scheme and top photo will be different.
I loved the first book and can’t wait for the second. Do you have any idea when it will become available?
It all depends on word of mouth. The more people you tell about the book and encourage to buy it, the faster he’ll reach the 1,000-book mark, and the sooner it will come out.
