I'm A Fool to Kill You - Rat Pack Mysteries #05
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Eddie Gianelli, pit boss at the Sands casino during the glory years of the Rat Pack, has a great gig. He’s the go-to guy for Frank, Dean, and Sammy whenever the boys find themselves in a tight spot. Those spots naturally tend to involve beautiful ladies. After extricating Marilyn Monroe from a jam in You’re Nobody ’til Somebody Kills You(2009), Eddie now finds himself helping out the beauty of all beauties, the former Mrs. Sinatra, Ava Gardner. Fretting over having turned 40, Ava goes on a bender, hoping to forget her worries with an ocean of booze and a steady stream of men. Unfortunately, one of those men, a Chicago gangster, winds up dead in Ava’s hotel room—and Ava can’t remember how he got there. Eddie and his sidekick, starstruck Brooklyn gangster Jerry Epstein, come to the rescue, attempting to reconstruct Ava’s lost weekend while dealing with various hitmen on her tail. For anyone with a crush on Ava (and that’s pretty much every male of a certain age), this breezy caper is unalloyed fun, though it’s hard not to feel