Limbo: A Lucie Rizzo Mystery, #3

By Adrienne Giordano

"USA Today Bestselling Author Adrienne Giordano hits it out of the park again - with the hysterical Lucie Rizzo Series! Her novella, Limbo is a laugh-riot!"

 

Lucie Rizzo's life is...complicated. 

 

She's worked hard to grow a legit business and leave behind the mob princess reputation. Now her mobster father is on parole, making things awkward at home—especially with her tall, handsome, and suspicious detective boyfriend. And thanks to an inescapable penchant for trouble, Lucie keeps stumbling into the wrong crime at the wrong time.

But what could go wrong at a dog show?

It's the perfect venue for Lucie to score visibility for her brand of bejeweled dog accessories—and some quality time with her sexy Irish cop, Tim O'Brien. Until her favorite client is snatched by a mystery woman. This broad messed with the wrong hot-blooded family! No one steals from a Rizzo, and Lucie and her zany sidekicks will do anything to take back what's theirs.

"Dis-Organized Crime at its finest!"

For more Lucie Rizzo fun check out all the titles in this laugh-out-loud crime romance series - read 'em all!

Dog Collar Crime * Knocked Off * Limbo * Boosted * Limbo (novella) * Whacked * Cooked * Incognito *

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: ALG Publishing
• Release date: Aug 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781942504436

Adrienne Giordano

Adrienne Giordano is a USA Today bestselling author of over forty romantic suspense and mystery novels. She is a Jersey girl at heart, but now lives in the Midwest with her ultimate supporter of a husband, sports-obsessed son and Elliot, a snuggle-happy rescue. Having grown up near the ocean, Adrienne enjoys paddleboarding, a nice float in a kayak and lounging on the beach with a good book. For more information on Adrienne’s books, please visit www.AdrienneGiordano.com. Adrienne can also be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/AdrienneGiordanoAuthor, Twitter at http://twitter.com/AdriennGiordano and Goodreads at http://www.goodreads.com/AdrienneGiordano. 

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Limbo

LIMBO

THE LUCIE RIZZO MYSTERY SERIES

ADRIENNE GIORDANO

ALG Publishing

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Excerpt From Boosted

More By Adrienne Giordano

A Note to Readers

Acknowledgments

About the Author

LIMBO

(Original title Dog Collar Limbo)

A Lucie Rizzo Mystery, Novella

Lucie Rizzo’s life is...complicated. She’s worked hard to grow a legit business and leave behind the mob princess reputation. Now her mobster father is on parole, making things awkward at home—especially with her detective boyfriend. And thanks to an inescapable penchant for trouble, Lucie keeps stumbling into the wrong crime at the wrong time.

But what could go wrong at a dog show? It’s the perfect venue for Lucie to score visibility for her brand—and some quality time with sexy Irish cop, Tim O’Brien. Until her favorite client is snatched by a mystery woman. This broad messed with the wrong hot-blooded family! No one steals from a Rizzo, and Lucie and her zany sidekicks will do anything to take back what’s theirs.

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1

"L uce, we’re over our heads here."

Lucie, sitting next to her complaining ape of a brother, made snoring noises. For dramatic effect, she added an eye roll.

She hadn’t schlepped all the way to Evanston at 9:00 AM on a Saturday to sit on rock-hard bleachers in a sweat-funked college gymnasium with three thousand people just to watch Otis, her favorite dog walking client, lose a talent show.

Not happening. It was way too early for such pessimism.

Her Otis would pull this out.

Joey wagged his finger. Roll your eyes all you want. All I’m saying is we don’t have this thing locked.

Her brother. The big mush. Why are you being so negative?

As the daughter of a mob boss, she’d spent twenty-six years finding the upshots and refused to give in now.

Joey blew air through his lips. I thought that limbo of his would be a showstopper.

Lucie flapped her arms, and glanced at Tim, her maybe-boyfriend. Who made him such a Debbie Downer?

Next to her on the other side, Tim flashed that you’re-so-cute grin and his green eyes twinkled under the glare of the gym lights. Joey, have a little faith.

Tim understood the value of positive thinking. He was a Chicago PD detective. The atrocities he saw each day would pulverize him if he didn’t look for the good.

Her brother grunted. Well, he could buzz off. She’d waited three weeks for this dog show and wanted to have fun. This sucker featured the Midwest’s most elite show dogs and the organizers, in a flash of genius, had added an additional thirty non-show dogs in a separate talent competition. A portion of the event’s profits would be donated to a local animal shelter, and the shelter had brought out the big guns by convincing a dealership to raffle a new car.

That got the locals flocking.

Ro, Lucie’s BFF, leaned in, nudging Joey with her shoulder. Blech. As much as Lucie loved them—yes, even Joey—she couldn’t get used to the two of them doing the nasty.

Or whatever it was they were doing.

It’s too soon to panic, Ro said. Besides, this whole thing is for charity, right? Either way, I didn’t bust out my favorite Louboutins to see this dog go down in flames.

Lucie glanced down at the hem of Ro’s skintight jeans. Today she’d paired the shoes with a red, plunging V-neck cashmere sweater that showed off her cleavage. The jaguar print booties—leave it to Ro to wear animal print to a dog show—with the four-inch spiked heels amped up the destroyer-of-men factor.

She’s right, Lucie said. I mean whoever saw an eighty-five-pound Olde English Bulldogge rocking a limbo? It’s fantastic.

And truly, it was. Otis’s owner, Mrs. Lutz, had spent hours teaching him to crab walk under a broomstick hovering a mere

Reviews for Limbo

[cathygeha · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Dog Collar Limbo by Adrienne GiordanoLucie Rizzo Mystery #2.5Lucie has a mystery to solve again in this short story that has her pitted against a dog thief. Lucie is using a dog show to push her Coco Barknell Boutique items while supporting one of her dog walking customers when said customer disappears and then the hunt is on. With the help of Tim – her current boyfriend, her brother Joey, and BFF Rhonda they search high and low in hopes of returning Otis to his owner. This fun, easy and quick to read story is half a day in the life of Lucie and a nice gap-stopper between books two and three. Thank you to the author for the copy to read and review. I have not read the other books in this anthology but have read some of the authors’ work and believe it will be varied and fun with something for everyone. 4 Stars