Synopsis:
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 it reveals are more than a hoarding cat lady with a phantom husband can ignore. Helen’s a suspect, and she ends up in jail. Summoned by the detective on the case, Helen’s sister Pat arrives from Phoenix with two teen-age 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.
Publishing Co.: Imbrifex Books
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Rating: ★★★★
Description:
I received this book from Netgalley and Imbrifex Books in exchange for my honest review. I'm also a tad bit late posting my review for this book so bare with me. I thought this was a really good adult murder mystery and it was handled very well.
I really liked the whole drama on top of drama role this book took on because not only are we focusing on finding this killer but we are also dealing with all of the family craziness going on. With that being said that really took this murder mystery and turned it into so much more for me. There was always something grabbing for my attention so I didn't really have the opportunity to get bored.
Character wise I think H. G. McKinnis did a great job of giving her characters roles and keeping them playing their OWN roles. Unfortunately, I didn't really feel connected with the characters, even though I knew all about them, something was still missing that made me lack sympathy for them.
On the predictability scale I don't think it was easy to guess who the killer was but when you find out who it actually is you're left kicking yourself because you feel like you should have known all along. Because I honestly thought I knew who the killer was but the joke was on me.
I absolutely loved the gruesome descriptions of the two murder scenes! It was something that really made me wince and cringe even though I wasn't literally seeing anything. Reading this was honestly like watching criminal minds and it was greatly appreciated.
I think this book is great for those YA addicts looking to test the waters in the adult genre, especially those in love with mystery novels. I'm not quite sure how the rest of the series is supposed to work out but I'm excited and I'm definitely looking forward to it.
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