Lucky O'Toole and her colorful assortment of friends and family are back with a new and outrageous Las Vegas murder mystery. Lucky is adjusting to her new relationship with Jean-Charles Bouclet, chef at the family owned Strip casino/hotel where Lucky is VP of Customer Relations. Her attachment to Jean-Charles and his young son is threatened by the return of Teddie, entertainer and the former-lover who broke her heart when he left her behind to seek his fame and fortune.
It's a good thing for Lucky that she has plenty to distract her from her personal problems. Lucky's biggest concern is managing the needs and egos of the celebrity chefs participating in a televised cook-off. That is, until a young chef is found killed with a smoking gun in Jean-Charles's food truck in the back lot of the casino. As the body count mounts, Lucky must manage the everyday chaos while clearing the name of a man she might just love.
LUCKY CATCH has all the creative madness readers expect from a Lucky O'Toole story. Lucky's world is never boring as it is populated with people who are happy doing their own thing. Lucky is the calm at the center of all the charming craziness. If you love funny mysteries, you'll enjoy the Lucky series. I would suggest starting with the earlier books in the series. The action moves fast and furious from page one so amiliarity with the characters will help readers immediately appreciate the story.
Trouble always comes in threes.
At least that's what Lucky O'Toole, the VP of Customer
Relations for Las Vegas' primo Strip casino/hotel, the
Babylon, has heard for years from her mother. So, tonight,
when Teddie, her former lover shows up at her office
unannounced and very unexpected, her father offers Teddie a
job at the Babylon, she is called to deal with a pig in
residence at one of the hotels most exclusive and opulent
suites, and Lucky's current lover, Jean-Charles Bouclet
stops answering his phone leaving Lucky to handle his
five-year-old son, Lucky figures she has tonight's
compliment of chaos covered.
As usual, she is a tad optimistic.
With a cadre of celebrity chefs with the maturity of
teenagers in Vegas for a televised cook-off, a prized Alba
truffle in the Babylon's care, and her mother's pregnancy
racing toward the inevitable, what could go wrong?
When the truffle is stolen from the walk-in in Jean-Charles'
gourmet burger joint at the Babylon and a young chef
apparently killed with a smoking gun is found in
Jean-Charles' food truck on the back lot, trouble takes a
sinister turn.
And Jean-Charles still isn't answering his phone.
Another body is discovered. This one stuffed in an oven at
Jean-Charles' eponymous restaurant and set to broil.
Desperate to put a lid on the body count and more than
frantic over her AWOL lover, Lucky uses her Vegas contacts
to search in places and in ways the police wouldn't or
couldn't. Teddie insists on riding shotgun. Lucky hasn't the
time nor the resolve to say no. She's never been able to
resist Teddie ... not really. With danger dogging their
heels, Lucky finds herself falling once again under his
spell as they traverse Vegas, being drawn deeper and deeper
into the highly competitive world of high-end eateries and
the battle for the very rare, most highly prized gourmet
foodstuffs.
Would somebody really kill for a truffle?
In a heartbeat.
And when Lucky's path crosses the killer's... will her goose
be cooked?
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