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Too Lucky to Live
Too Lucky to Live
Too Lucky to Live
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Too Lucky to Live

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"In this entertaining, sexy debut, Allie is a sharp Stephanie Plum paired up with a hot partner... The original voice, humor, and unusual premise will appeal to Janet Evanovich readers." —Library Journal STARRED review

Lonely and broke, Cleveland divorce-survivor Allie Harper believes all her problems would be solved if she could find a nice, smart, hot guy and enough money to get her car fixed.

The hot guy arrives first: he's in a crosswalk clutching a bag of groceries while a blonde in a Hummer is leaning hard on her horn, sending the man's groceries and white cane flying. How has this woman missed the fact that the man is blind? From the curb, an outraged Allie jumps to his rescue, rebagging the groceries as well.

The money is in the bag. Literally—Thomas Bennington III, for that's who the handsome guy proves to be, has bought a MondoMegaJackpot ticket along with canned tomatoes. Allie takes him home and turns his groceries into dinner for two. Later that night, Tom hears the numbers announced. He's won. And he's less than thrilled. PhD Tom had gambled on the odds of losing (175 million to one) to prove a point to Rune, a kid from the projects he's befriended, that only losers buy lottery tickets. Instead, Rune, who'd helped pick the Mondo numbers, will share Tom's jackpot.

Allie and Tom grasp two things: one, they're hot for each other, and two, the ticket is a hot target, and now so are they. Every scheming weasel in Cleveland will be after Tom's millions. $550 of them. Yes, once the Mondo ball drops, it's game on with killers and kidnappers as players.

Allie and Tom need to get smarter about the threats all around them. On the run from one fancy hotel refuge to another and from one danger moment to the next, with only Allie's feisty landlady, Margo, and a couple of Cleveland cops for back-up, Allie and Tom evolve a strategy. First, turn in the ticket and claim the jackpot. Second, set up accounts to manage the millions. Third, stay alive to the end of the week...if they can.

Too Lucky to Live debuts a talented writer in Annie Hogsett and a couple in Allie and Tom, a modern Nick and Nora Charles, who can power a compelling, amusing series with an excellent future.

Somebody's Bound to Wind Up Dead series:

Too Lucky to Live (Book 1)

Murder to the Metal (Book 2)

The Devil's Own Game (Book 3)

Praise for Annie Hogsett:

"Fast pacing, multiple plot twists, and humor, including a Stephanie Plum-like main character, enliven the story and keep the pages turning." —Booklist for Too Lucky to Live

"The bittersweet mystery, with the open-ended threat of a villainous mastermind, is reminiscent of P.J. Tracy's early 'Monkeewrench' novels." —Library Journal for Murder to the Metal

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Release dateMay 2, 2017
ISBN9781464207891
Too Lucky to Live
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Annie Hogsett

Annie Hogsett, the author of the Somebody's Bound to Wind Up Dead Mysteries, lives and writes in the City of Cleveland, ten yards from the shores of Lake Erie. She has never won a $550 million lottery jackpot.

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    I was looking for a lIght, fun and fast read and this fit the bill. The wildcap hijinks are clever by half and the perils of sudden fortune a good premise.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Allie Harper very quickly tells us, "I have always felt that with some training, I'd make an excellent P.I. A cross between V.I. Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone, with a dash of Stephanie Plum, Bounty Hunter, thrown in for insouciance." In Too Lucky to Live, I saw a lot of Stephanie Plum and not much at all of Millhone and Warshawski. Rune, the poor kid Tom was trying to teach a lesson, was my favorite character, but there wasn't enough of him. I have to be honest and say that I understand why. With killers and kidnappers behind every door, giving Rune a more substantial part would call for putting a child in a lot of danger, and I don't care for that at all.Too Lucky to Live is a light, quick, fun read which is well-suited to fans of mysteries like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum.

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