{"id":281846,"date":"2018-10-24T22:35:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=281846"},"modified":"2018-10-24T22:35:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:35:01","slug":"latest-installment-of-mystery-series-addresses-global-pandemic-of-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/latest-installment-of-mystery-series-addresses-global-pandemic-of-human-trafficking_281846.html","title":{"rendered":"Latest Installment of Mystery Series Addresses Global Pandemic of Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A STUDY IN CRIMSON, the 5th installment in the critically acclaimed Dakota Stevens Mystery Series by Chris Orcutt, takes readers back to the beginning of Dakota\u2019s career as a private investigator.<\/p>\n

In the course of his investigation, Dakota discovers that a rogue psychology research experiment is actually the front for an elaborate and nefarious human trafficking scheme, all for something even more sinister.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dakota Stevens has just thrown off the shackles of the FBI and launched his own private detective agency. But it’s not going well. His so-called cases are limited to tawdry divorce work, and his personal life is a shambles.Enter the Director of the FBI, who compels Dakota to go undercover at an Ivy League university. His task? To rescue a college coed from the clutches of a Svengali-like psychology researcher.<\/p>\n

The novel also shows Dakota meeting his associate, gorgeous international chess grandmaster Svetlana Krüsh, for the first time. Svetlana, bored with her chess career, is seeking a new challenge.<\/p>\n

“I knew I wanted Dakota and Svetlana’s introduction to mirror the first meeting of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet<\/em>,” Orcutt said. “Like other aficionados of Sherlock Holmes, I have always loved Stamford’s introduction of them to each other in a chemistry lab, and Holmes’ famous first words to Watson: ‘You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.’”<\/p>\n

In the novel, Dakota must navigate a minefield that includes flirtatious coeds, passionate professors, hired thugs, and former FBI colleagues.Most of the action in the novel takes place in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, around a certain Ivy League university.<\/p>\n

“I began writing A Study in Crimson<\/strong> before I knew how and when Dakota and Svetlana would meet,” Orcutt said. “At the outset all I knew was, I wanted the title of the story to have ‘crimson’ in it as my homage to A Study in Scarlet<\/em>. However, early on I decided the word ‘crimson’ would refer to blood, as well as an incidental connection to Harvard University.”<\/p>\n

In the course of his investigation, Dakota discovers that a rogue psychology research experiment is actually the front for an elaborate and nefarious human trafficking scheme, all for something even more sinister.<\/p>\n

A Study in Crimson<\/strong>, the prequel to the critically acclaimed Dakota Stevens Mystery Series, shows a younger, devil-may-care Dakota at his charming, witty, and resourceful best.<\/p>\n

Chris Orcutt has written professionally for over 25 years as a novelist, short story writer, speechwriter, journalist and playwright. A Study in Crimson<\/strong> is his eleventh book.<\/p>\n

Orcutt lives and works in Dutchess County, New York. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Dakota Stevens Mystery Series, including the Amazon #1 bestseller A Real Piece of Work<\/em>. Orcutt’s short story collection, The Man, The Myth, The Legend<\/em>, was voted by IndieReader as one of the best books of 2013.<\/p>\n

His modern pastoral novel One Hundred Miles from Manhattan<\/em> (an IndieReader Best Book for 2014) prompted Kirkus Reviews to favorably compare Orcutt to Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Cheever. In 2017, Orcutt released The Ronald And Other Plays<\/em> and a humorous memoir about the writing life entitled Perpetuating Trouble.<\/p>\n

A Study in Crimson<\/strong>, along with the rest of the Dakota Mystery Series, is available in paperback and ebook form at Amazon.com<\/p>\n

Media Contact<\/span>
Company Name:<\/strong> Have Pen, Will Travel
Contact Person:<\/strong> Alexas Orcutt
Email:<\/strong> Send Email<\/a>
Phone:<\/strong> 845-705-6389
City:<\/strong> Millbrook
State:<\/strong> NY
Country:<\/strong> United States
Website:<\/strong> www.orcutt.net<\/a><\/p>\n

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