The Vicky Lucci Series (paperback originals)
A risk manager for Denver’s fictional Montmorency
Hospital, Vicky Lucci (pronounced “Lucky”) works too hard,
cusses too much, and, while trying to keep her hospital out
of trouble — and out of the newspapers — tends to fall into
trouble herself.
Book #1: A successful risk manager who loves living
life on the edge, Victoria Lucci wears Norma Kamali,
dates too many married men, and strives to keep her
Denver hospital out of the headlines. But her job is
about to take an unlucky turn. Patients are winding up
dead, and it looks like someone in the hospital is
responsible...
Four people have been given tainted blood. Vicky
has suspects, leads, evidence, even the cops on her
side. The trouble is, she can’t help taking matters
into her own hands. And when the matter is murder,
that means she runs the greatest risk of all: losing
her life. Book #2: A risk manager for Denver’s Montmorency
Hospital, Victoria Lucci works too hard, drives too
fast, and has just skidded into a heap of trouble. She
hit a black cat belonging to a comely young witch. But
before Vicky can extricate herself from the injured
animal and its curse-wielding owner, her life at the
hospital starts to unravel. A nymphomaniac attacks a patient, one of Vicky’s
colleagues disappears, and the wife of a prominent
surgeon falls into a coma—after coming in for a routine
nip and tuck. Is it the result of the witch’s evil eye,
or the sinister work of someone trying to plunge
Montmorency into a mega-lawsuit? Before Vicky can ferret
out the truth, murder rocks her world. Now she doesn’t
need tarot cards to read the future: There’s a killer in
the hospital. And Vicky’s luck is running out.... Book #3: Earlier in the evening, Vicky had champagne
and a wedding on her mind. When she returns to work in
her friend’s stretch limousine, stark reality sets in:
An armed man is loose in the Denver hospital where Vicky
is the risk manager. Now dozens of lives are in
danger. Vicky finds the crazed gunman, who has taken a group
hostage in the maternity ward, including a young woman
who is about to deliver a baby. While many of the
patients flee, Vickky cannot abandon the terrified
mother and father. And for Vicky, the risks are all too
clear: what she says and how she behaves in the next six
hours will make all the difference between who will live
and who will die before the dawn... Book #4: The reports of Jenna McLaren’s demise were premature. Because Jenna—nervous, well appointed, and very much alive—was siting in risk manager Vicky Lucci’s office, with a copy of her own death certificate. Now Vicky has to find out how her Denver hospital pronounced Jenna dead . . . and why. For Vicky, the answers come fast and furious, along with a rising tide of mystery, suspicious behavior, and unexplained deaths. With a lucrative job offer danging in front of her, Vicky may be leaving the medical center just in the nick of time. On the other hand, with lies, secrets, and the promise of an unproven miracle drug swirling all around her, Vicky may be doing just what a killer ordered: leaving the heat for the fire...
