Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures Books in Order
Part ofDeborah Coonts Books in OrderThis page shows the Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures by Deborah Coonts in order, with summaries, series background, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: July 12, 2026
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Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures books in publication order
15 books
Wanna Get Lucky?
by Deborah Coonts
2010
When a woman falls from a tour helicopter into a pirate show, casino fixer Lucky O'Toole refuses to call it just another Vegas tragedy. Between wild conventions and messy romance, she starts digging and finds a killer nearby.
Lucky Stiff
by Deborah Coonts
2011
A sleazy oddsmaker ends up in a shark tank, and Lucky's friend Jeremy becomes the prime suspect. While the Strip swarms with chaos, from runaway bees to her mother's latest scheme, Lucky has to clear his name.
Lucky Bang
by Deborah Coonts
2012
A bomb at a friend's restaurant gives Lucky a Fourth of July she won't forget. The scare also stirs up an older near-tragedy from her childhood, linking present danger with buried questions from the past.
Lucky in Love
by Deborah Coonts
2012
Lucky books a chaotic reality dating show into the Babylon and quickly regrets it. While contestants self-destruct across Vegas, she has to protect the hotel and sort out a love life that is getting more complicated by the minute.
So Damn Lucky
by Deborah Coonts
2012
When magician Dimitri Fortunoff appears to die during an escape and then his body vanishes, Lucky gets pulled into a case full of showmanship and bad timing. Between a UFO convention and romantic turmoil, nothing in Vegas stays simple.
Lucky Bastard
by Deborah Coonts
2014
A murdered woman on a Ferrari and a second death at a high-stakes poker tournament put Lucky on a killer's trail. As Teddie returns with big news, the case hits both her job and her personal life.
Lucky Catch
by Deborah Coonts
2014
A missing truffle, a murdered young chef, and Jean-Charles's sudden silence leave Lucky juggling trouble on every front. The case takes her into the competitive food world, where ego, ambition, and murder simmer together.
Lucky Now and Then
by Deborah Coonts
2014
When skeletal remains are found beneath a hotel set for demolition, the case points straight at Lucky's father. To clear him, Lucky has to dig into old Vegas history and the city's talent for reinventing itself.
Lucky Break
by Deborah Coonts
2015
Christmas in Vegas goes sideways when a beloved country singer is killed in Jean-Charles's kitchen and Teddie is blamed. Between old enemies, family chaos, and underworld pressure, Lucky has a killer to catch before the holidays explode.
Lucky Flash
by Deborah Coonts
2015
Lucky turns a washed-up singer and a wild claim about stolen Vegas music memorabilia over to her reporter friend Flash Gordon. What starts as a goofy lead quickly becomes a black-market mystery with real danger behind it.
Lucky the Hard Way
by Deborah Coonts
2016
With Teddie in Macau and her father's empire on the line, Lucky has five days to catch a killer and stop financial ruin. The stakes are bigger than ever, and Vegas rules no longer apply.
Lucky Ride
by Deborah Coonts
2017
On New Year's Day, a rodeo girl brings Lucky a family secret just as a clown turns up dead. With her mother acting suspicious and her past wobbling, Lucky has to solve a murder and rethink everything she thought she knew.
Lucky Score
by Deborah Coonts
2018
When a blood-soaked negotiator stumbles into the Babylon as Las Vegas chases an NFL team, Lucky gets dragged into a murder with money and careers riding on it. Her ex, her fiancé, and the city itself only complicate the case.
Lucky Ce Soir
by Deborah Coonts
2019
Lucky goes to Paris to meet her fiancé's family and winds up accused after a fortune in rare wine is stolen. With bodies falling and an old flame nearby, she has to clear her name before France finishes her off.
Lucky Enough
by Deborah Coonts
2020
Back in Vegas after chaos abroad, Lucky wants quiet, not a battered heart, a dead man in her delivery bay, and the DEA sniffing around the Babylon. Then her father reveals a secret that could wreck both the family and the casino.
Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures books in chronological order

Wanna Get Lucky?
by Deborah Coonts
2010Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 1
Lucky Stiff
by Deborah Coonts
2011Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 2
Lucky in Love
by Deborah Coonts
2012Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 3
So Damn Lucky
by Deborah Coonts
2012Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 4
Lucky Bang
by Deborah Coonts
2012Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 5
Lucky Now and Then
by Deborah Coonts
2014Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 6
Lucky Bastard
by Deborah Coonts
2014Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 7
Lucky Catch
by Deborah Coonts
2014Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 8
Lucky Flash
by Deborah Coonts
2015Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 9
Lucky Break
by Deborah Coonts
2015Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 10
Lucky the Hard Way
by Deborah Coonts
2016Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 11
Lucky Ride
by Deborah Coonts
2017Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 12
Lucky Score
by Deborah Coonts
2018Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 13
Lucky Ce Soir
by Deborah Coonts
2019Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 14
Lucky Enough
by Deborah Coonts
2020Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures, Book 15
Series background & context
The Lucky O'Toole books begin with a job most people would quit by lunchtime. Lucky is the chief problem solver for the Babylon, a flashy resort on the Las Vegas Strip where every disaster, scandal, and impossible guest request eventually lands on her desk. Her work is part guest relations, part damage control, and part keeping very rich people from embarrassing themselves in public. Then a death looks wrong, a disappearance does not add up, or a mess inside the hotel starts to smell like murder, and Lucky ends up doing the thing she never officially signed up for, solving crimes.
And midnight usually comes with a body.
From Wanna Get Lucky? onward, the series runs on a lively mix of mystery, romance, and comedy. Lucky has a fast mouth, a stubborn streak, and a real talent for spotting the detail everyone else wants to ignore. She is good at reading people, good in a crisis, and not nearly as calm about her own personal life as she is about the chaos around her. That gap is a big part of the charm. She can handle a hotel emergency in five-inch heels, then turn around and make a total mess of a relationship.
The supporting cast keeps the books buzzing. Teddie, her longtime best friend and first great love, brings history, glamour, and complication. Jean-Charles, the French chef who becomes central to Lucky's life, adds romance and a different kind of trouble. Lucky's mother Mona is chaos in human form. Her father is deeply tied to the business side of Vegas, which means family drama and work drama have a habit of becoming the same thing. Around them swirl reporters, performers, chefs, gamblers, old enemies, and people with too much money and too little sense.
Vegas never stops performing.
That setting is the secret sauce. These books use Las Vegas as more than scenery. The city shapes the pace, the stakes, and the jokes. Convention crowds, celebrity magicians, poker tournaments, sports deals, chef showdowns, old mob shadows, and tourists looking for reinvention all feed the plot. Later books widen the map to places like Macau and Paris, but the series always comes back to a city built on spectacle, risk, and second chances.
The books do build on one another, especially where Lucky's love life, her family, and the future of the Babylon are concerned. The novellas, including Lucky in Love, Lucky Bang, Lucky Now and Then, and Lucky Flash, fit between the novels and add useful character beats along with extra side adventures. You can dip in for one case, but the emotional payoff is better if you read in order and let the larger story unfold.
If you are wondering what kind of mystery this is, think fast, glossy, and a little mischievous, not cozy in the teacup sense. The murders matter, but so do the jokes, the friendships, the family blowups, and the romantic tangles. If you like a capable heroine, a strong sense of place, and mysteries that move with real pep, Lucky O'Toole is a very good bet.
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