#1 Amazon Humor Bestseller & #1 Amazon Cozy Mystery Bestseller
Tony Soprano, meet Stephanie Plum.LACEY LUZZI RESUME
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CURRENT: MOBSTER (in training)
2 YEARS: LAUNDROMAT WENCH
TOO MANY YEARS: MANAGER AT STRIP CLUB
1 NIGHT: MISERABLY FAILED STRIPPER
8TH GRADE – SPELLING BEE CHAMPION
… NIGHT: MISERABLY FAILED STRIPPER
8TH GRADE – SPELLING BEE CHAMPION
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Lacey Luzzi’s rollercoaster of a life has been filled with the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. She just never expected the lows to be so… sparkly.
After falling on her face during an attempt to follow in her recently-deceased mother’s stripper-boots, Lacey realizes she’s not cut out for life on stage. She sets out on a year-long investigation to find her true family, never expecting she’ll find it with a capital “F.”
With a rumbling stomach, a need for money (check engine lights don’t fix themselves!), and a conscience that operates at 78% on a good day, Lacey is sucked into a whirlwind of Family secrets, hard-as-cement cookies, and mysterious, sexy men who unfortunately shoot guns, sometimes aimed at her face. The long-lost-granddaughter of Carlos Luzzi, the Godfather of the Italian Mafia, Lacey accepts her first assignment for the mob: finding fifteen million dollars of ‘the good stuff.’
Even after she enlists the help of her mouthy best-friend and her cousin, a technical genius and social disaster, she finds that going toe-to-toe with the rival Russian mob is more dangerous than expected.
No one chooses their Family, but Lacey Luzzi will be lucky if she can survive hers.
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Lacey Luzzi: Sprinkled, is a full-length, laugh-out-loud, humorous cozy mystery with a strong female protagonist in the spirit of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum, albeit one working for the wrong side of the law…
Note: Rated a strong PG-13 for sarcasm and mild language. No graphic gore or sex.
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I have read the entire series multiple times, it’s funny and i have laughed each time i read it the characters are amazing.
So, I started to read and .. yes… I kept on reading. A book has to pull me in, otherwise I get bored and start to skip stuff or I stop reading altogether.
At first I was confused as the story did not make much sense and I did not really like Lacey. I mean, there is not but backstory to help me endear to her. We are told Lacey has searched for her family after her mother died and found the Luzzi Family (yes, the mob). She is now working for her grandfather.
But it is not explained why her mother kept her from her family, who her father is, what the heck Lacey has been doing all these years. She is 28/29, her mother has died 3 years ago and after her death she tried stripping (her mother was a very good stripper) but failed at that. According to her CV she has been the manager of a strip club for years, but that does not work with the timeline. Also because there is a necklace mentioned Lacey got for her 16th birthday by her grandmother. But maybe that is a typo and should be 26.
The timeline thing bothered me, but I started to like Lacey, Clay and the other odd characters (especially Anthony).
So, I bought the next book and kept on reading. This is clearly the first in a series so I read and rate this accordingly. (Jan 2015)
Just what I needed while social distancing! This book is well done escapist fiction, in turn humorous, thoughtful, surprising, and a bit edgy. A unique storyline. Lacey is definitely not made of lace…but leather…sometimes soft, can stain easily, and tough when push comes to shove. She’s had an upside down and backwards life, thus seeks out her Italian Family and is not prepared for what she finds or how complicated these new relations and relationships turn out to be. Just when Lacey thinks she’s got it all figured out, something else jumps into view with a ripple effect. Honestly, you end up liking her in spite of herself. Well drawn characters, settings and dialogue are colorful, and the ending will make you seek out the rest of the series. Highly recommend!
Lacey Luzzi may be a mobster in training. With many job attempts not working out she needs a job. Her current t living situation is with cousin Chad…and not ideal. Chad is a computer geek always surprising he with New inventions.
Meanwhile grandfather Carlos has her look for “The Good Stuff”. While extremely valuable, Lacey is unsure what she is actually looking for. Meanwhile unlucky in love Lacey seems to have issues anytime she take a date to a FAMILY
Will she find The Good Stuff, and will she find a successful date? Will it be gym trainer Anthony, the Russian Andrew, or handsome stranger Michael?
This was a great book. The characters are dynamic and the plot was really unique. Lacey is down on her luck, always seems to be getting in trouble, ill-prepared, and she’s somewhat klutzy. She is also trying, and failing, to get her life together. This along with her diet (or lack thereof), her crazy social life, and her family is where a lot of the humor is derived. Lacey’s trying to become a member of her (mob) family. All while helped out by both her technical genius cousin, Clay, and her ex-cop best friend, Meg. They eat, they laugh, they stake out; they work together to help Lacey complete her first assignment from the family. She has three guys wanting to date her, but she’s not exactly strong with people. She also doesn’t know which man she can/should trust. Filling out her crazy family is her grandfather, the mob leader yet family man, and her grandmother, the well-meaning family woman who tries to feed Lacey her awful home cooking, try to find a husband for her. This book is a hilarious, action-filled, great read. This is the first in a great series I’ve read them all and they rarely disappoint.
Story was a little slow to start. Lacey, Meg and Clay are a wild team. Can they find the good stuff for Carlos? Read and find out all the things Lacey gets herself into?