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Originally published at Am I the Only One Dancing?. Please leave any comments there.

To say I have mixed feelings about playing the lottery is to put it very mildly. I once watched a woman spend fifty dollars on lottery tickets in the middle of a very cold winter while she and her daughter were wearing clearly inadequate clothes for the weather. I’ve heard the snarky geek saying a thousand times ‘Lotteries are a tax on the mathematically challenged’.

And yet, every time there is a really big payout, I go buy a ticket. Just one. I always buy it at least a day before the drawing. And then I begin to daydream…

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Originally published at Am I the Only One Dancing?. Please leave any comments there.

After I bit the Bullet and completed my review, I thought I was done. But no. She posted an excerpt from her next book, Hit List, on her blog, and I had to go read it. (Had to, I tell you. It’s a law, or something).

I read it, and I’m going to like this one, unless she jumps the shark after the first chapter. LKH wisely moved Anita out of St. Louis for this book, this time to Tacoma, Washington, and hooked her back up with her old (platonic) pal Ted (who is like Dexter, but not as sexy, and does his killing on the up and up, now, has a license and everything). There is a mystery to be solved, and obvious bad guys. Moving the story out of St. Louis reduces some of the Mary Sue effect, so maybe Anita can even get hurt.

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