Drop Dead Beautiful: The Lucky Santangelo Series

If your mother was raised by an once Italian mafia member you would think that when you mother tells you to do something, you would listen. But what if every once of charm that your mother has you have just not as refined; then do you get the right to go against her wishes?

Drop Dead Beautiful was the perfect title for this elegantly written sixth installment of the Lucky Santangelo series. In this Max, Lucky's teenage daughter has decided to do what she wants no matter what her mother says. So if that means that she must lie to her parents, just to meet up with a stranger that she met on the internet to have sex to make her ex-boyfriend jealous, she will. Too bad this internet “friend” has a major grudge against her mother and has been lying to Max the whole time.

But don’t worry; he doesn’t want to hurt her. No, in fact, he has decided that Max is his angel and must taken away from her awful mother, and must stay with him forever. That is until he learns that she does not feel this same connection. So when he finds her with her “cousin” (Ace a guy that she met a store while waiting for Henry, the internet freak) he begins to worry and may even commit murder to ensure that he get just he wants.

And with all of this going on right under Lucky’s nose without her knowing, she still has bigger problems to worry about. Her long time best friend is now dating a much younger man that may not be that faithful. Plus over the last couple weeks she has been getting this mysterious cards that read Drop Dead. Now who in the world could be sending these to message to a dangerous woman like Lucky? Could it be the illegitimate grandson of her father’s worst enemy?

Anthony Bonar has vowed to his family that he continue the family business and to put an end to the Santangelos. So with the opening of Lucky’s new hotel guaranteeing that she and her father will be there, maybe a tragic accident that will kills all in a terrible fire is sufficient.

That is before he killed the date that his accomplice has set him with up and then tells her to take care of the mess that he made. It also does not help that his wife is having affair the gardener. Will everything go right or could he be the one to “end up with the fishes”.

I rate this book with four stars. A wonder storyline that plays to everyone, not just the one star.