Author: Deborah Coonts

Deborah Coonts writes comic mysteries rooted in the spectacle, service corridors, and shifting loyalties of Las Vegas. Wanna Get Lucky introduces Lucky O'Toole, the chief problem solver at the fictional Babylon resort, where an unusual death pulls her from routine guest crises into a wider investigation. Coonts uses Lucky's job to move naturally between casino executives, performers, visitors, and staff, giving the series an unusually broad view of resort life. The novel is the first Lucky O'Toole mystery and was published by Forge, an imprint of Macmillan. Coonts brought experience as a lawyer, business owner, and pilot to her fiction, but the defining quality here is her balance of fast plotting with dry humor. Later books continue Lucky's professional and personal complications, making this volume the clearest starting point for the sequence. Readers approaching Coonts through the novel can expect a confident first-person guide, a vivid city setting, and mysteries that treat Las Vegas as a working community as well as a glittering destination.