Jackpot Bay

Martin Hegwood. Minotaur Books, $23.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-312-28096-3

The ""Redneck Riviera,"" aka the Mississippi coast, provides the sultry setting for Jackpot Bay, the fourth Jack Delmas novel (Massacre Island, etc.) from Martin Hegwood, senior attorney for the secretary of state's office of Mississippi. With a deadly gun battle at the Jackpot Bay casino, a sexy security auditor and a rock concert besieged by fundamentalists, Jack has plenty to straighten out in this fast-paced, hard-edged thriller.

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