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Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

The blurb:

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good.

Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.

When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he's investigating a suspiciously—and statistically impossibly—lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it's Vera's last chance to make sense of a world that doesn't.

Because what's happening in Vegas isn't staying there, and she's the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.

What I've read

• A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo (review to come)
• Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher (review to come)
• Death By Water by Kerry Greenwood (review to come)
• Joe Country by Mick Herron (review to come)
• Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett (review to come)
• London Rules by Mick Herron (review to come)
• Possession by AS Byatt (review to come)
• Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
• Blood Covenant by Alan Baxter
• Countess by Suzan Palumbo
• Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
• The ABC Murders and Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
• Spook Street by Mick Herron
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Hemsworth Effect by James Weir
• The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
• Making Money by Terry Pratchett
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• Real Tigers by Mick Herron
• On The Way To The Wedding by Julia Quinn
• Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
• Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell
• Blue Poles by Tom McIlroy
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
• It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
• Never Flinch by Stephen King
• Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
• Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
• The Truth by Terry Pratchett
• Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
• Dead Lions by Mick Herron
• The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe with Danny Lore, Yohanca Delgado, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Sheree Renée Thomas, Eve L Ewing
• Snuff by Terry Pratchett
• A Dreadful Murder by Minette Walters
• Thud! by Terry Pratchett
• Gunnawah by Ronni Salt
• When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
• Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
• Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
• Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power by Lech Blaine
• The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
• To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn
• Jingo, by Terry Pratchett
• Year's Best SF 2, edited by David G Hartwell
• Slow Horses by Mick Herron
• The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
• Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
• Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
• Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
• An Offer From A Gentleman by Julia Quinn
• Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
• Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett
• The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
• Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
• The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
• Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
• Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S Dawson
• Mort, by Terry Pratchett
• The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
• Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle
• We'll Prescribe You A Cat, by Syou Ishida, translated by E Madison Shimoda
• Mean Streak, by Rick Morton
• Here One Moment, by Liane Moriarty
• Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik

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