Luck Be the Ladies: Group X Cases

By J. A. Bouma

Ah, Sin City. The City of Lights. The Gambling Capital of the World, especially when Lady Luck showed her lovely face.

 

Except for when she didn't.

 

Because Lucky Seven wasn't so lucky for Kiki Cormorant—the seventh victim of a serial killer on the loose hunting down prostitutes on the Strip.

 

Enter Elijah Fox and Gina Anderson. Before they solved the Church's inexplicable cases, they were FBI agents investigating the nation's wickedest crimes.

 

When something strikes them as familiar, strikes them as something demonic—this case from hell turns into something they never could have expected.

 

This 50-page novelette supernatural mystery is sure to give you the chills as you follow Elijah and Gina investigating a case that must get solved—not only for justice for the female victims, but to keep Vegas safe from a menacing evil.

• Language: English
• Publisher: EmmausWay Press
• Release date: Mar 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201739317

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Luck Be the Ladies

LUCK BE THE LADIES

A GROUP X CASE STORY

J. A. BOUMA

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LUCK BE THE LADIES

Ah, Sin City. The City of Lights (along with Paris), the City that Never Sleeps (along with New York), the City of Second Chances (yeah, right!)

How about the Marriage Capital of the World. Or the Entertainment Capital of the World. More like the Gambling Capital of the World, especially when Numero Siete was involved, the number of Lady Luck.

Except for when it wasn’t.

Because Lucky Seven wasn’t so lucky for the prostitute who was missing an arm and a leg. Irony of ironies, since this was Vegas. Seven was sort of a Vegas totem for Lady Luck making an appearance.

Not for Kiki Cormorant.

Not sure if that was her real name or stage name—or perhaps street name, given her chosen occupation.

But it was a doozie! Because a cormorant is a kind of sea bird, which was a bit ironic since I was standing in basically a hydrated desert, the Great State of Nevada seeing fit to pump umpteen gallons of water from Lake Mead, which gets its water from the Colorado River. Ninety percent of it, actually. Which, if I were Colorado, I’d have a conniption over, demanding payments from here to Sunday.

Anyway, Kiki, who was missing an arm and a leg—both, actually, in keeping with the familiar pattern that had dragged my backside and my partner Gina Anderson three-quarters of the way across the United States.

Cost her nothing to lose her limbs, too, other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Which was working the Vegas Strip, along with the rest of her sisters of the street-corner short shorts waiting for the next John looking for a good time. Would normally add or gal looking for a good time, but this was the mid-2000s, and that really wasn’t a thing yet. At least not publicly. Obergefell was another decade way, although Ellen certainly did enough to push the needle forward, along with Will & Grace.

Anyhoo, my partner and I were brought in when it was clear seven dead prostitutes wasn’t a rounding error. Apparently, six wasn’t so bad, but seven—that was enough to make the sex workers unionize. Which was not good business for the pimps