Bad Luck

by Suzanne Proulx

HIGH RISK. WICKED VIBES. BAD LUCK . . . A risk manager for Denver's Montgomery Hospital, Victoria Lucci (pronounced "lucky") works too hard, drives too fast, and has just skidded into a heap of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044900421X
• ISBN13: 9780449004210
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Fawcett
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Have Good Luck with "Bad Luck"

Our intrepid risk manager cum sleuth Vicky Lucci is back again in this second installment of Suzanne Proulx's series. This time around, Vicky is trying to hide her mirth at her boss, Jette's, disappearance while simultaneously searching for her. At the same time, a big-wig hospital doctor's wife checks in for a routine brow lift, and checks out in a coma. Inexiplicably, there seems to be no organic cause, and Vicky can find no fault with the procedure itself or the performance of her colleagues. So, is this just an accident? Or is it part of a nefarious plot against a wealthy doctor, his wife, and/or the hospital? You decide.Vicky is in rare form in this novel. More sarcastic and ill-tempered than ever before, she tries to juggle her investigations with an emerging, and personally terrifying, relationship with her neighbor across the hall, Glenn. Will Vicky put aside her longterm resolve to only involve herself with married men and take a chance on happiness with Glenn?If nothing else, this book is worth the read, just to bear witness to the patently hilarious monologue Vicky delivers upon a fellow driver on the road. She states that she has this verbal ability to dispel her anger before it leads to road rage. It was so on-point and hysterical, I was literally laughing my way to tears. Long live Vicky Lucci!

Cat Happy

Okay, I read the previous "Bad Blood" and enjoyed it, but this was even better. I loved how the cat played a role and how our heroine didn't like cats but got stuck with one. Very good book. I highly recommend it.

Bad Luck

Suzanne Proulx's "Bad Luck" was my good luck. What a great read! The story is fast moving and the characters are eccentric, fun and funky. Crime solving risk manager, Vicky Lucci, is part Sherlock Holmes in a skirt and part Colombo in "to-die-for" little black pumps. Vicky finds herself beleaguered and bewitched as Montmorency Hospital becomes the epicenter for mishaps and murder. Montmorency Hospital is more like the Hotel California, "you can check in , but you can never check out." Vicky juggles one crisis after another while she pragmatically ferrets out the truth. Vicky, a poster child for the tobacco industry, chain smokes her way through black magic, missing co-workers, a routine surgery gone horribly wrong and murder. She needs to find the truth, protect the hospital and get it all done without getting herself killed. Just a day's work for "Super" Risk Manager, Vicky Lucci.Proulx is a first class storyteller with a fresh and personal writing style. "Bad Luck" is a clinic in creative writing. It begs the reader to ask why aren't there more stories like this? Proulx finds an intriguing and engaging voice in her heroine, workaholic Vicky Lucci.This is a book to give to friends, better yet, buy them their own copy, you'll want to enjoy this story more than once. But be warned before you pick up your copy, you'd better check out your health plan, if it includes Montmorency Hospital...well it's your "Bad Luck."

A fast-paced, irreverantly funny read

Bad Luck is hilarious in places, and offers up insights into hospital life and life outside the hospital that anyone can relate to. From the cigarettes in the Smokers Showcase to the interoffice relationships to her chaotic homelife, Vicki Lucci is a compelling heroine. Bad Luck pulls you with breathtaking speed toward a surprise finish that's a payoff in itself. Suzanne Proulx just keeps getting better and better!

Excellent medical drama

Victoria Lucci is going through a tough time because her boss has disappeared without telling anyone where she went. Vicky, the risk manager for Denver's Montgomery Hospital, continues to perform her own job and that of Jette's, without a car to take her to the various job sites. She borrows a vehicle from her boss's superior, but accidentally runs over a black cat. She takes the cat and its teenage owner to a vet where she pays the bill before finally, and under duress, takes the feline into her home.Vicky plans to find a home for the freaky feline, but an emergency at work prevents her from doing so. Surgeon Dennis Devoss' wife had successful plastic surgery, but never awakens from the operation. Vicky investigates what happened that left this woman in a coma. She begins to understand why her boss vanished and why Ms. Devoss lies in a comatose state, but that type of information is very dangerous to know.The reader watches in horrifyingly fascination the hospital brass manage damage control as graphically described in the apt named BAD LUCK. The mystery is cleverly constructed especially since it always changes direction so that the reader never knows what to expect next. Suzanne Proulx has an incredible ability to create characters that are realistic, likable, and yet unusual. Vicky is a paramount example of such a protagonist, but much of the remainder of the cast fits the bill too. This enjoyable medical mystery will entice the audience to look for previous titles by Ms. Proulx (see BAD BLOOD) as well as anxiously await the next installment in this dlicious medical mystery series.Harriet Klausner