Lucky Flash Lucky Flash
Book 5.5 - The Lucky O'Toole Vegas Adventure Series

Lucky Flash

A Lucky O'Toole Original Novella 4

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Publisher Description

“Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly (review of Lucky Stiff)


Everyone Has a Hidden Talent


For Lucky O’Toole it’s murder…solving it.


Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads.


As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description.


She’s good at her job.


She’s less good at life. But who has time for a life when there’s a killer on the loose?


LUCKY FLASH


Love, laughter, and mischief Vegas-style. 


Lucky O’Toole, Vice President of Customer Relations at the Babylon Resort, one of the premier properties on the Vegas Strip, is back. This time she wises-up and sends her down-and-dirty best friend, investigative reporter “Flash” Gordon on the trail of Johnny Pismo. Pismo, a washed-up-never-been singer shows up at the Babylon singing a song about a ring of thieves stealing Vegas’ music memorabilia. They replace each piece of Vegas’s music history with a fake, selling the originals on the black market. Pismo even claims to have the prize piece in Lucky’s father’s collection—a large diamond ring given to the Big Boss by Liberace himself. 


Lucky is shocked to learn he’s telling the truth. 


Teddie, Lucky’s former lover, offers a few choice pieces of his memorabilia collection as bait. Of course, Lucky must join the chase to protect Teddie’s treasures. 


But can she protect her heart from him in the process? 


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, New York Times bestselling author of Family Tree


“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 bestselling author of Trust Me, Stop Me, and Watch Me


"More fun than a winning streak in Vegas." - Diane Mott Davidson, author of Fatally Flakey


"Deborah Coonts...entrusts the sleuthing to a brainy beauty who sees the lighter side of human folly." - NYT 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

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2015
September 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
146
Pages
PUBLISHER
Chestnut Street Press
SELLER
DEBORAH COONTS
SIZE
2
MB
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