Jingle of Coins
C.D. Ledbetter
dlsijpress.com, 250 pages, ISBN: 1932014136
reviewed by Barry Hunter

Emily Sane has just finalized a job as special effects person to one of Hollywood’s top directors when an accident changes her life forever. She can no longer paint and she must wear hearing aides to dampen her now enhanced hearing. After she gets out of the hospital, some of her friends go to a casino and Emily is able to hear the gears changing just before a slot machine pays out a jackpot.

Emily then moves to Las Vegas hoping to cash in on her new power. Her next door neighbor, Kate, is a high class call girl, whose main client is a prosperous drug dealer. Another neighbor is Glen Cragione, a casino security analyst who sells facial recognition systems and recognizes Emily from her visits to the other casino.

These three get involved with a counterfeiting case where three agents are missing and presumed dead. Kate’s drug dealer friend wants to move into bigger arenas and Kate is working with the government in order to find the missing agents. Emily and Glen work together to create a nest egg so that that can retire early. But in any good thriller, the parties become intermingled and everything seems to be coming apart.

Ledbetter ties the ends together and creates a very intriguing story line that reads well. Although some of the plot is a little loose (Glen’s motivation), this is a very readable, enjoyable book.