Lucky Enough (Lucky O'Toole Vegas Adventure)
Price
$16.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
342
Publisher
Chestnut Street Press
Publication Date
May 7, 2020
ISBN-13
978-1944831011
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.86 x 8.5 inches
Weight
15.3 ounces
Description
Deborah Coonts swears she was switched at birth. Coming from a family of homebodies, Deborah is the odd woman out, happiest with a passport, a high-limit credit card, her computer, and changing scenery outside her window. Goaded by an insatiable curiosity, she flies airplanes, rides motorcycles, travels the world, and pretends to be more of a badass than she probably is. Deborah is the author of the Lucky O'Toole Vegas Adventure series, a romantic mystery romp through Sin City. Wanna Get Lucky?, the first in the series, was a New York Times Notable Crime Novel and a double RITA(TM) Award Finalist. She has also penned a few standalone novels; After Me, a medical thriller, Deep Water, a romantic suspense, and Crushed, a contemporary romance set in Napa. Although rarely there, Deborah calls Houston home. You can always track her down at www.deborahcoonts.com.
Features & Highlights
- Lucky’s story comes full circle in the conclusion of the Lucky O’Toole Vegas Adventures.
- “Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly (review of Lucky Stiff)
- Home: A refuge. An escape. Where the heart is.
- After a high-body count trip through Europe, Lucky O’Toole, the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s most over the top Strip casino, is home and searching for peace, quiet and a quick fix for a broken heart.
- She should know better.
- Her father is failing in his fight to regain his health after taking a bullet to the chest.
- Her mother, Mona, is increasingly desperate to be “useful” which usually results in her being anything but.
- Her love life is in shambles.
- The DEA is after her, but not giving a hint as to why.
- The NBA is in town for their All-Star break extravaganza highlighting the new rookies.
- Somebody got cute and put a Bugatti on top of her hotel.
- And a dead guy turns up in delivery bay seven with his skull bashed in.
- Not exactly the soft reentry Lucky had hoped for. But she can handle it.
- Until her father, after checking himself out of the hospital, summons Lucky for a “family” meeting. A secret from his past puts the future of the Babylon and the family in jeopardy.
- And he expects Lucky to fix it.
- Worse, a financier who played cat-and-mouse with Lucky around the globe, striving to leave her holding the bag, could hold the key to her saving it all.
- Can she trust him?
- Does she have a choice?
- Find out by getting your copy of this light, funny, romantic mystery today!
- AN INTERVIEW WITH DEBORAH COONTS
- Why did you decide to write humor?
- I’m not sure I decided to add snark to the Lucky books, specifically to Lucky’s own voice, it just happened that way. When I was a kid, my mouth always got me into trouble. Finally, I’ve found a way to harness the sarcasm for the Forces of Good—or at least in a way not to anger my grandmother. And when Lucky started talking to me, she had a strong dose of sass in her.
- The Lucky O'Toole Vegas Adventure series is hard to categorize. Is that by design?
- When I set out to write
- Wanna Get Lucky?
- , I knew I wanted to write a romp through Las Vegas. I had the characters and the setting but no real understanding of narrative drive. So, I threw a young woman out of a tour helicopter into the middle of the Pirate Show and let the story unfold. A bit of murder to keep the plot moving, some wisecracking and Vegas mischief to make you laugh, and some romance to keep it interesting. A bit of a mash up, but it works.
- PRAISE FOR THE LUCKY O’TOOLE VEGAS ADVENTURE SERIES
- “Lucky’s story is
- funny, fast-paced, exuberant and brilliantly realized
- .” -
- Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author
- “Get ready to
- win big--with a novel that will keep you glued to the pages
- all the way to the end.” -
- Brenda Novak, New York Times & USA Today bestselling author
- "
- More fun than a winning streak in Vegas
- . Lucky O’Toole is a character with brains, beauty, and a wry sense of humor. Readers will want to meet her again—and soon." -
- Diane Mott Davidson, New York Times bestselling author
- "Deborah Coonts...
- entrusts the sleuthing to a brainy beauty who sees the lighter side of human folly
- ." -
- New York Times Book Review
- "Las Vegas is the perfect setting for this witty tale of misdirection and larger-than-life characters.
- Fans of J. A. Konrath's Jack Daniels series will love this
- ." -
- Library Journal, starred review
- “
- A whirlwind of a kooky crime novel
- , and readers will enjoy every minute of it. Coonts provides
- the perfect solution for readers waiting for the next Stephanie Plum book
- .” -
- Booklist
