Lucky O’Toole Las Vegas Adventures

The crime genre is often encompassed by layers and layers of darkness, world-weariness, and cynicism. The hero is often down-on-his-luck ex-officer of some military sector or just an experienced street-wise cynic who clashes with his past while exploring some entangled mystery case. It is virtually impossible to imagine these kinds of novels without picturing a hero walking through the dark alleys on a rainy night with danger lurking. If a reader buys a novel about Lucky O’Toole with this atmosphere in his mind, he will have another thing coming. Deborah Coonts created the world so out of touch with the titles that made the genre famous that sometimes it seems like Nora Roberts met John Grisham and absorbed him. However, this works somehow, and Lucky O’Toole is one of the best-selling crime novels out there. It became one of “The Ten Notable Crime Books” according to The New York Times. But what is it about?