Rick Gadziola: 2 books

Jake Morgan loves Las Vegas. He's a 33-year-old ex-cop from Boston who will wager on anything - as long as his money holds out. Having run into trouble in Beantown, for the past year he's been eking out a living as a blackjack dealer at the posh Oasis Hotel & Casino. Christian Valentine, the star...

An ex-cop gambles with his life in Las Vegas in this “fast-moving” mystery (Booklist).   Jake Morgan, who left the Boston police force and wound up in Vegas thanks to his taste for games of chance, finds himself hitting it off with a beautiful high roller in her sumptuous suite. Then an assassin...