It takes a guilty bastard to make a justified bitch.
When a severed finger appears on her doorstep in a seedy Las Vegas neighborhood, Helen Taylor doesn't panic. After all, her life is already a little unconventional. Her house is crammed with decades of accumulated junk, her collection of cats keeps growing, and she regularly carries on conversations with Bobby, her long-dead husband. The unsettling part? Bobby talks back.
But the finger is no figment of Helen's imagination. It points to a brutal murder, and before long, Helen finds herself a prime suspect?and behind bars. Desperate for help, the detective investigating the case summons Helen's sister, Pat, from Phoenix. Pat arrives with two teenage boys in tow, only to discover that her sister's troubles are far more disturbing than she imagined.
When Helen disappears from a mental health facility and another gruesome murder comes to light, the mystery takes an even darker turn. As Pat, the boys, and the detective struggle to separate truth from delusion, they uncover secrets that challenge everything they thought they understood.
In a world where the dead may speak and madness may conceal the truth, solving the murders will require more than ordinary detective work. Some mysteries demand an explanation that defies reason itself.
Autorentext
A life-long resident of Las Vegas and alumna of the University of Nevada, H.G. McKinnis knows her city as only a local can. By night, she fluffs feathers and attaches rhinestones to the exotic wardrobes of the most glamorous venues on the strip, by day McKinnis writes about the often hardscrabble lives of her fellow desert denizens and the unlikely city they inhabit. A Justified Bitch, a twisted tale of insanity, murder, and redemption, is her first novel.
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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.