For most women in the business, Atlantic City is hooker heaven, but Diana Andrews hates the downtime. She can watch her client at the blackjack table for only so long, and the in-house entertainment holds no appeal. When a new man offers her some easy money on the side, the job lands Diana in the middle of a casino rip-off, a cold murder case, and another killing so fresh that it might rub off on her. A novelette.

Albert Tucher is the creator of suburban prostitute Diana Andrews, who has appeared in more than eighty hardboiled short stories in venues including the anthology "The Best American Mystery Stories 2010." Her first longer case, the novella "The Same Mistake Twice," was published in 2013. Albert Tucher recently began writing about his favorite place on earth, the rainforest of the Big Island of Hawaii, in "The Place of Refuge" (2017), "The Hollow Vessel" (2018), and the forthcoming "The Honorary Jersey Girl." (It's complicated. You'll have to read the book when it comes out next year.)