More murders for Lucky. This time a little closer to home. Fancy shoes, fancy cars, double crossing poker players. What's not to like? Lucky still reeling over Teddie & having Jean Charles pursue her she's stuck smack dab in the middle of solving the problem of murder along with Romeo, Dane, The Beautiful Jeremy Whitlock & Ms P. Another great mystery trying to figure out who done it as the pieces fall together & then explode all over. ( )

Meh. Will/she won't she is starting to take away from the whole mystery plot. ( )

Lucky O'Toole continues to grow on me, and I think it's unfair to always compare her to Stephanie Plum. Lucky, progeny of a Vegas big wig, has worked her way up in the hospitality business in casinos, no less, a place where repeat customers, conventions and "whales", all vie for her attention. She's tough and she's smart and it's not her fault dead bodies keep appearing at the Babylon hotel. Her easy friendship with the police helps ease what others might construe as nosiness into official business. Like the Plum books, there are some great secondary characters, Vegas being on of the best. (less) ( )

I was disappointed. I was expecting some romance (with all of the men in Lucky's life, you'd think she'd be snogging like crazy!) but there was very little romance at all!
They mystery of who killed pretty woman in the Ferarri was good. I don't think I would continue on with this series or read the older titles though.

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Lucky Bastard by Deborah Coonts
Wanted to read this book because of the locale: Las Vegas strip.
Lucky has a lot going on in her personal life (others in the family) and her business life-she runs a strip mall on the strip.
She is called when a dead body is found and wishes she had not answered the call.
Fascinating, love to learn about new things: red contact lenses! Love how they solve why things happened and the props used.
The book cover really fits the book content. Seems just when they get a handle on one aspect of the murder, there are 10 other questions and they
go clue to clue to find the answers. There are a lot of characters in the book but they do not swarm down all at once to overcome you. It's easy to keep them straight.
I loved hearing of the Spring Mountains as my visit to LV we walked around the area there.
This series sounds like it could go on forever because there are a lot of things that come up at casion/restuarant/hotels in LV.
I received this book from JKCommunications in exchange for my honest opinion. ( )