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The Bodaciously Teen Epic

Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome:
Episode I, Bad Boy

Book 1 of 9 of Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome.

Episode I, Bad Boy, the 1st book of Boda­cious­ly, takes read­ers back to 1986–87 high school life.

Com­ing-of-age and teen romance col­lide in a boda­cious and authen­tic jour­ney through the 1980s…

In Feb­ru­ary 1986, once-invis­i­ble sopho­more Avery “Ace” Craig sud­den­ly becomes the most mag­net­ic guy at Han­cock High. Armed with a Walk­man and mix­tapes packed with every­thing from A‑Ha to ZZ Top, Avery charges toward man­hood with con­fi­dence, charis­ma, and a genius IQ—but has no clue how to han­dle what’s next.

Dur­ing a school trip to D.C., Avery shakes hands with Pres­i­dent Rea­gan, gets a glimpse of his future, and has a sex­u­al awak­en­ing, set­ting off a chain reac­tion. Girls notice him, his hor­mones det­o­nate, and his friends are clue­less. With no adults to turn to, Ace must nav­i­gate the thrilling, ter­ri­fy­ing ter­rain alone—with only a Boy Scout Hand­book, his instincts, and a Princess Leia poster to guide him.

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Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome:
Episode II, True Blue

Book 2 of 9 of Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome.

Episode II, True Blue, the 2nd book of Boda­cious­ly.

It’s 1986, and as the cold March winds blow, Avery “Ace” Craig’s life heats up with more com­ing-of-age adven­ture and steamy teen romance…

New­ly intro­duced to the affec­tions of the oppo­site sex, Avery becomes entan­gled with a teen siren. The pair are burn­ing up with their mutu­al attrac­tion, mak­ing it impos­si­ble for Ace to stay true blue to his girl­friend. Between his bur­geon­ing friend­ship with a bril­liant girl who gets him, and poor rela­tion­ship advice from his Scout leader, Ace is start­ing to feel the heat.

Fric­tion with an over­pro­tec­tive father, a sar­cas­tic guid­ance coun­selor, a rook­ie town cop, and a spe­cial request from an FBI agent, turns up the heat. A self-appoint­ed mis­sion to retrieve a friend’s stolen belong­ings proves more per­ilous than he thought, but it’s noth­ing com­pared to what hap­pens at a par­ty on the ides of March, or what Avery learns are the three most dan­ger­ous words in the Eng­lish lan­guage.

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Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome:
Episode III, Danger Zone

Book 3 of 9 of Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome.

Episode III, Dan­ger Zone, the 3rd book of Boda­cious­ly.

As the win­ter of 1986 drags on, an irri­tat­ed and frus­trat­ed Avery “Ace” Craig plum­mets into the dan­ger zone…

Avery is try­ing to be a good boyfriend, but her father and Avery loathe each oth­er, and their ani­mos­i­ty cul­mi­nates in a mon­do argu­ment. Mean­while, Avery is becom­ing more than friends with his study part­ner, his junior high crush is falling for him, and a cen­ter­fold-cal­iber col­lege girl gives him her phone num­ber.

When a fight with an adult bul­ly results in a girl res­cu­ing him with an unex­pect­ed ali­bi kiss, Avery feels the spark of true romance, but as the town cop pur­sues him, Avery stages a Mac­Gyver-style escape from Han­cock High. Then, dur­ing a late-sea­son ski trip with a friend and her fam­i­ly, Avery’s courage will be test­ed like nev­er before.

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The Dakota Stevens Mystery Series

A Real Piece of Work

The Ama­zon Best­seller that launched a series…

A Real Piece of Work, the 1st nov­el in the Dako­ta Stevens Mys­tery Series by Chris Orcutt, delves into a world of forged and stolen art, secret iden­ti­ties and mur­der.

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The Rich Are Different

The high­ly-antic­i­pat­ed mys­tery sequel…

The Rich Are Dif­fer­ent, the 2nd nov­el in the Dako­ta Stevens Mys­tery Series by Chris Orcutt, explores the rar­efied world of a Long Island heiress and her mur­dered broth­er who owned an Old West resort in Mon­tana. To hunt down the man’s killer, Dako­ta and his asso­ciate Svet­lana Krüsh must go under­cov­er as actors in a make-believe min­ing town straight out of 1885.

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A Truth Stranger Than Fiction

He’s BACK. Dako­ta Stevens, the tough, wise­crack­ing New York pri­vate eye…

A Truth Stranger Than Fic­tion, the 3rd nov­el in the Dako­ta Stevens Mys­tery Series by Chris Orcutt, delves into the bizarre, inter­con­nect­ed world of for­eign spies and fan­girls, mob­sters and mur­der­ers, gov­ern­ment bureau­crats and cor­po­rate prof­i­teers.

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The Perfect Triple Threat

See Dako­ta Stevens and Svet­lana Krüsh before they took down glob­al con­spir­a­cies…

In The Per­fect Triple Threat, the 4th install­ment in the Dako­ta Stevens Mys­tery Series by Chris Orcutt, Dako­ta and Svet­lana solve cas­es in the Green Moun­tains of Ver­mont; Dutchess Coun­ty, New York; and the mean and glam­orous streets of L.A., tan­gling with chain­saw artists, sev­en-foot tall Native Amer­i­cans, motor­cy­cle gangs, ex-cons, crooked cops, nude celebri­ties, and Chi­nese gang­sters.

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A Study in Crimson

DAKOTA BEGINS…

A Study in Crim­son, a pre­quel and the 5th nov­el in the crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed Dako­ta Stevens Mys­tery Series, shows a younger, dev­il-may-care Dako­ta at his charm­ing, wit­ty, and resource­ful best.

Dako­ta has just thrown off the shack­les of the FBI and launched his own pri­vate detec­tive agency, but that doesn’t stop the Direc­tor of the FBI from com­pelling him to go under­cov­er at an Ivy League uni­ver­si­ty. His task? To res­cue a col­lege coed from the clutch­es of a Sven­gali-like sex researcher.

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Other Books by Chris Orcutt

One Hundred Miles from Manhattan

One of IndieReader’s Best Books of 2014.

One Hun­dred Miles from Man­hat­tan is a nov­el about an upscale  rur­al community—Wellington, NY—where the hills and the seem­ing­ly quaint vil­lage con­ceal lives of love, lust, adul­tery, tragedy and small wars.

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Perpetuating Trouble

Orcut­t’s livin’ the dream! Or is he?

In Per­pet­u­at­ing Trou­ble, a mem­oir, Orcutt chron­i­cles the ago­nies and the ecstasies of being a full-time nov­el­ist. Whether pick­ing up two female hitch­hik­ers who lat­er turn out to be aliens from anoth­er plan­et, or divest­ing him­self of a hoard of tacky paint­ings, or using phi­los­o­phy to get out of a traf­fic tick­et, Orcutt finds the humor and the art in his tri­als.

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The Man, The Myth, The Legend

One of IndieReader’s Best Books of 2013.

The Man, The Myth, The Leg­end, Chris Orcutt’s new short sto­ry col­lec­tion, show­cas­es his fer­tile imag­i­na­tion and writ­ing artistry as applied to the per­fect genre for busy readers—short fic­tion.

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The Ronald And Other Plays

In this col­lec­tion of plays, Chris Orcutt—author of a crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed mys­tery series, and award-win­ning lit­er­ary nov­els and short stories—reveals his full range as a sto­ry­teller.

All of the plays in this col­lec­tion, includ­ing the polit­i­cal satire The Ronald, may be per­formed roy­al­ty-free by ama­teur the­atre com­pa­nies (high schools, col­leges and com­mu­ni­ty the­atre groups).

If you’re an ama­teur the­atre com­pa­ny and would like to per­form one of the plays in this book, con­tact Chris.

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