Mr. Lucky (Trentbridge Crime Series Book 1) by Lee Wood – Review by Dr. Anya Schultz

Mr Lucky by Lee Wood
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Mr. Lucky is the first crime thriller in the Trentbridge Tales. The story has many characters, but it mainly revolves around Detective James Sheldon. Early in the introduction of the characters, you find out that James loses his family to an accident. This event sends him into a downhill spiral finding himself homeless. He gets “lucky” and ends up winning the lottery. However, this is a blessing and a curse you will come to find out. In winning the lottery, all eyes are now on him and not the good way. He starts to get wrapped up in pretty bad situations with criminals, drug dealers, etc. Being a former detective, this does not look well for him. He ends up trying to get himself out of many bad situations while also dealing with his past. Will he have enough luck on his side to come out on a good end of the situations he finds himself in?
This book started slow and confusing for me. The beginning is a bunch of stories introducing the characters, but it is hard to catch on to what the point is until you are about 30% into the book. Once that was over, the writing and the story did get better. There were many ups and downs, twists, and turns. If you like crime stories you will probably enjoy this. This is a British crime story, so that may be why I didn’t click with it as much as I wanted to, but it was suspenseful.

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