Swain, James.
Summary: Hard-boiled ex-cop Tony Valentine has a new profession: spotting casino cheats and exposing a casino's flaws to the owners. Now, he must unravel the mystery of an amateur player impossibly raking in the dough on blackjack. However, his investigation stirs up a hornet's nest worth of problems. First of all, the suspect bears a distinct resemblance to Valentine's late wife; second, she's captured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWADouglas, Carole Nelson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUSwartwood, Robert
Summary: "While on vacation in Las Vegas, a businessman wakes up in a strange hotel room to find a dead woman in the bathtub. Panicked, he runs. But before he can get far, a pair of detectives stop him. Desperate, he tells them that he's innocent. That there's no way he killed the woman. That he'll do anything not to go to prison. That's when they offer him a way out. But there is no way out--as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SWABohjalian, Chris
Summary: Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC BOHEllroy, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLKellerman, Faye.
Summary: Detective Romulus Poe of Las Vegas investigates the murder of a show girl whose mutilated body was found in the desert. The probe pits Poe against the owner of a casino.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow and Co. 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELGiles, L. R. (Lamar R.)
Summary: Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GILCoonts, Deborah.
Summary: Casino fixer Lucky O'Toole's search for a missing magician is complicated by a confrontation with The Big Boss, the hopeful advances of coworker Paxton Dane, and a blisteringly amorous French chef.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOMcBride, Laura
Summary: Fun-loving and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world of her New Jersey childhood for edgy 1950s Las Vegas. For the next 60 years, June will dare to live boldly. She will upend conventions, risk her heart and her life, rear a child, lose a child, love more than one man, and stand up for more than one woman. June's story will intertwine with those of three unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBBernhardt, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERWinslow, Don
Summary: Danny Ryan, former Irish mob soldier, buried his past and is now a respected casino mogul. But when a land buy triggers a war with Vegas power brokers, he must return to the ruthless fighter he once was.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINDouglas, Carole Nelson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUMcBride, Laura
Summary: Four women from diverse backgrounds find their lives intersecting at a Las Vegas casino nightclub where they each experience a life-changing moment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBRai, Alisha
Summary: While settling her aunt's affairs with the help of Naveen Desai, a lawyer--and the man she rejected--Mira and Naveen find themselves in a mad dash through Las Vegas, following clues to untangle the mess her family left behind, which puts both their lives in danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RAIBohjalian, Chris
Summary: "The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOHMichaels, Fern
Summary: When lawyer Lizzie Fox's husband, Cosmo Cricket, is left critically injured after being shot by an unknown assailant, the men of BOLO Consultants head straight for Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie - and to uncover a dangerous enemy in the City of Sin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Michaels 2019Love, Jessica
Summary: How can your life change when you break the rules every now and then? Hannah Cho is about to find out when she impulsively decides to road trip to Las Vegas, her older sister and BFF in tow, to surprise Nick Cooper and finally declare her more-than-friend feelings for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LOVMcGinniss, Joe.
Summary: The lucrative yet dangerous world of a teenage call-girl service lures Chase and his childhood friend, Michele, in Las Vegas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGTran, Vu
Summary: "Robert, an Oakland cop, still can't let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she's disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who's blackmailing Robert into finding her for him. As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny's sadistic son, "Junior," and assisted by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRAAllen, J. D.
Summary: Vegas PI Jim Bean is conned into leading a dangerous woman straight to her target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLDeWitt, Amanda
Summary: "Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school's basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do? Everything starts falling apart when Jack's mom is arrested for their family's ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family's chance to finally go straight, but Jack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEWThornton, Marshall
Summary: It's Easter 1993, and the gang is going to Las Vegas for Angie's surprise wedding. Noah is attempting to recover from a bad bout of the flu--and his disastrous Valentine's Day, and is not all that excited to meet his new relatives: Cotton Preston and his three grown daughters. They're staying at Lucky Days casino, a hotel with notorious mob connections... and family connections. It's only then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kenmore Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSie, James.
Summary: "Recent high school graduate and aspiring artist Walter Stahl lives with his ailing father in the dregs of Las Vegas, their lives overshadowed by the disappearance of Walter's mother, who drove off when he was five and never returned. Although Walter has never so much as seen a photograph of his mother, it doesn't stop him from keeping an eye out for her in the groups of tourists he caters to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIEPerry, Thomas
Summary: Murder has been easy for the butcher's boy until now: It's what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of specialists in police agencies who watch the world of organized crime. All notice that something big is going...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003