Corpse on a Swing

<p>Pepe Montecarlo is a lucky man and he knows it. Witness his goofy ever-present grin slapstick demeanor absurd attempts at humor.</p><p>In Laurel Traeger he has a gorgeous funny black mistress. Together they cut a wide swathe through the Texas Hill Country's swinger lifestyle leaving a trail of satisfied smiles in their wake.</p><p>A retired business journalist who bet smartly on The Big Short in the Great Recession Pepe's vocation is keeping up with his beloved Nubian Queen. He runs 30 miles a week shoots bull's eyes with a pocket pistol drives a classic Corvette.</p><p>Pepe has friends too: a giant brilliant criminal lawyer and former University of Texas fullback nicknamed Deuce and a Half; Laurel's sister Tuffy a sheriff's deputy and kick-ass dominatrix; smart gentle Rex and sexy insatiable Mimi Vega the first couple Pepe and Laurel played with after becoming lovers. </p><p>During a date with Rex and Mimi at a rowdy swinger nudist resort Rex and Mimi turn up dead. Chief suspects: Pepe and Laurel.</p><p>The hearts of other friends and lovers stop beating. Pepe and Laurel's suspect cred rises despite Tuffy's belief in their innocence.</p><p>Then somebody starts targeting Pepe and Laurel.</p><p>Pepe will need to learn as old Blue Eyes said if Luck Be a Lady one fateful night.</p><p> </p><p>Imagine Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man) leaping from the 1930s to the high-tech sexually liberated 21<sup>st</sup> century where seduction humor sarcasm brains grit and a facility with firearms remain as indispensable as ever.</p>