DUMB LUCK

About the Book

Tom Ludwig and Mark Carlino are two top notch detectives. Mostly they handle hard driving cases that take them to the far corners of their precinct.

For a change, they are assigned to the seemingly innocent death of an elderly bellhop at one of the most exclusive hotels in town. Innocent until the medical examiner speaks.

This innocuous beginning leads them to eight murders in the span of one week. The cast of characters they will meet includes a backroom politico, who can raise money or order ‘hits’, an alcoholic hit man, a middle aged spinster, an embezzler, an Italian opera star and a hotel owner going broke, among others.

Come travel with them as they spend their week in relative luxury looking for their suspect in the better parts of town while solving a spree of murders.

About the Author

Joy Joseph is a play write, director, actress, former dancer, drama coach, newspaper columnist and mother of eight. Raised in New Jersey, she studied dancing and drama from a very early age. She has been writing and directing plays and occasionally making appearances for the past twenty-eight years. A suburban theater group, founded by Joseph, has recently celebrated twenty-five years of performing. Along with this busy schedule, she also taught drama classes at a Catholic grammar school for eighteen of those years, reaching all grades from first to eighth. Each year culminated with a “Graduation Play” directed by Joseph For several years she also wrote a newspaper column for a Chicago Suburban newspaper as well as penning several short stories. She and her late husband, Lou Joseph, a science writer and media specialist raised their eight children in suburban Chicago where she has lived for the past forty-eight years.