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Title: A Justified Bitch: A Las Vegas Mystery (Las Vegas Mysteries)
Author: H.G. McKinnis
Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-25-17
Publisher: Imbrifex Books
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
It takes a guilty bastard to make a justified bitch.
When a severed finger shows up on her doorstep in a seedy section of Las Vegas, Helen Taylor does not freak out. She's already crazy, as evidenced by her junk-stuffed house and its ever-growing population of cats. There's also Bobby, her long-dead husband. Helen talks to him regularly, and Bobby talks back.
The finger and the brutal murder reveals more than a hoarding cat lady with a phantom husband can ignore. Helen is a suspect, and she ends up in jail. Summoned by the detective on the case, Helen's sister Pat arrives from Phoenix with two teenage boys in tow.
While Helen is AWOL from a mental facility, another gruesome murder is discovered. Pat, the boys, and the detective, struggle to separate fact from insanity, but it takes power beyond the ordinary to bring the truth to light.
Members Reviews:
A Justified Purchase
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I first read this book as an ARC and loved the characters, the plot, the Old Las Vegas vibe, and the books message of recovery and redemption, but I read it a second time as an audiobook, and I am enthralled! The narrator, Jane Oppenheimer, is magnificent. Ive listened to hundreds of audiobooks, and shes one of the best in the business. She is able to give a unique voice to a long list of diverse characters, from Helen, the wacky widow who still communicates with her dead husband, Bobby, to the uptight, prissy psychiatrist to whom she is assigned, to her solicitous sister, Pat, to teenage boys, to a pair of multi-ethnic lesbian hairdressers and to the various down-on-their-luck men and women in Helens circle of friends and neighbors.
Helen Taylor wasnt always a crazy, voice-hearing hoarder. A Berkeley graduate, she and her husband lived a normal existence as high school teachers who loved the outdoors. Bobbys death in a hiking accident hurled Helen into another world where she survives by hoarding items and reselling them at a weekly flea market. When her neighbors dismembered body is found, Helen becomes the focus of the police and her estranged sisters attentions. The well-meaning sister, Pat, brings her son Jordan and Helens teenage son Marc, to Las Vegas to protect Helen and to try to establish normalcy in her life. Through Pat and Jordans efforts to sort through the detritus of Helens home and lifestyle the reader is exposed to a Las Vegas population of street people, flea market vendors, public servants and elite private health providers. Through Marcs efforts to appreciate Las Vegas as only a teenage boy can do, the reader is exposed to showgirls, the behind the scenes choreography of an actual performance and hotel security.
A Justified Bitch is an engaging mystery with dark humor and witty repartee between characters. Bobby and Helens humorous observations of the people and situations around them are revealed in comical similes such as as busy as a pimp with one whore.
H.G. McGinnis brings a unique perspective to the telling of a Las Vegas story. As a dresser for the big production feather shows of Las Vegas recent past, shes been at the heart of the glamour and excitement of iconic Las Vegas. As a native of Las Vegas, shes lived in the neighborhoods away from the bright lights of The Strip and has seen them transform as populations, housing trends and the economy change.
