Patton Burch is the president of BedBugs, a company that specializes in bugs that benefit organic gardening. He is in Las Vegas for a conference, and the first day has gone great. Things are about to change though. The young woman working for him at this conference as a sexy lady bug spends an innocent night with him, but the next morning he finds her dead in front of the air conditioner in his room.
Patton’s wife is his business partner, and she also encounters troubles of her own at this time. On top of that, she isn’t too happy about this sexy young lady turning up dead in her husband’s hotel room. Can you blame her?
Soon Patton finds out he is wanted not only for murder but also for money laundering. Patton realizes he is the only one who can prove his innocence.
A Death in Vegas takes you from the casinos of Las Vegas, Nevada to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to the wineries of Sonoma, California. It is a story of a normal man with usual problems caught up in a situation where he has to break the law in order to remain a free man and prove he isn’t the guilty one.
I read this book and reviewed it years ago, so I was thrilled when I had the opportunity to review it as an audiobook. The story itself was great, and I knew I would enjoy listening to it. I wasn’t disappointed.
Sonoma Valley, California
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The narrator, Bill Perry, has a voice that is smooth and pleasant. He clearly articulates the words, so he is easy to understand. Listening to him read the book while washing dishes and cleaning my kitchen actually made that daily chore enjoyable.
The audiobook will hold your interest from the first sentence read but pausing it to go do other things won’t be too much of a problem. As its many layers unfold and you learn more about the situation Patton is in, it turns into a story that demands you don’t pause or stop the audiobook until its satisfying conclusion.
I was sent a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. If you would like to purchase this audiobook for yourself or as a gift for someone else, I’ve provided an Amazon link for you below.
Amazon Link: A Death in Vegas (audiobook version)
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Favorite Sentences:
Patton rubbed his stomach, which felt as bruised as old bananas.
Fabio looked at him with pained amazement like a kid who’d fallen from the merry-go-round on the playground, confused by centrifugal force.
As he drove through the arid treeless beige country where shrubs were like chocolate chips, he passed the outposts of casinos on the border with California, and he considered Chatterley’s death from a detective’s point of view.
The rows continued down the hill on either side of the winery like foam spilling from a cappuccino.
New Words Learned:
enology – the study of wine
geworfenheit – the feeling of thrownness or how we feel to be thrown, lost, and confused in a particular situation (http://zvix.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/heideggers-being-and-lostness/)
homunculus – a diminutive human being
piker – a cheapskate
terroir– the combination of factors, including soil, climate, and environment, that gives a wine its distinctive character
trichogramma – any minute wasp of the genus Trichogramma, comprising a beneficial group of chalcid flies that parasitize the eggs of a variety of insect pests
viticulturists – the culture or cultivation of grapevines; grape-growing
wally – a fool
About the Author:
Award winning author Christopher Meeks has had stories published in several literary journals, and he has two collections of stories, Months and Seasons and The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea. He also has a new short story collection coming soon.
His novel The Brightest Moon of the Century made the list of three book critics’ Ten Best Books of 2009. His novel Love at Absolute Zero, also made three Best Books lists of 2011, as well as earning a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Finalist award.
Chris’s two crime novels, Blood Drama and A Death in Vegas have earned much acclaim. He has had three full-length plays mounted, and one—Who Lives?—had been nominated for five Ovation Awards, Los Angeles’ top theatre prize. Mr. Meeks teaches English and fiction writing at Santa Monica College, and Children’s Literature at the Art Center College of Design. To read more of his books.
Mr. Meeks teaches English and fiction writing at Santa Monica College, and Children’s Literature at the Art Center College of Design.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed the ‘A Death In Vegas’ audiobook. I loved listening to it while exercising!