Wanna Get Lucky?, by Deborah Coonts (REVIEW) — High Heels, Whiskey, & Murder under the Vegas Lights
A pretty young thing does a swan dive into a hotel pool part-way through a splashy production number, surprising the hundreds of people watching. It’s a cool effect. Problem is, she’s not par t of the show, and her unscripted entrance—tumbling from a helicopter—is also her exit... her very, very final one. Meanwhile, in another hotel... an enormous fellow is sleeping off a bender in a not-so-out-of-the-way stairwell, clad in nothing more than his pasty-white Birthday Suit. A Japanese billionaire has just crashed the brand-new Ferrari he’d put on his room tab. A national group of swingers is due to arrive any minute, as is a huge contingent of techno-geeks ready to get their nerd freak on. And absolutely everyone who is—or aspires to be—”someone” in the adult film industry will also be converging shortly, for a XXX-rated version of the Oscars. In newcomer Deborah Coonts’ delicious W...