Milicent Le Sueur

De: Margaret Moseley

Narrado por: Jan Ross

From Margaret Moseley, the Edgar Award-nominated author of the best-selling Bonita Faye, comes a wickedly funny, delightfully unusual mystery novel featuring a very unlikely detective.

Millicent Le Sueur is an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive bag lady in a rural Southern town who witnesses the hit-and-run killing of a teenage girl. Or so she claims. Some townsfolk believe she killed the girl and made up the story to cover her crime.

Battling her neuroses and psychoses, and counting her steps along the way, she tracks a killer she hopes won't count her as the next victim.

©2017 Margaret Moseley (P)2017 Brash Books LLC

Milicent Le Sueur

From the beginning, I loved the quirkiness of Milicent Le Sueur. Her eccentricities and unique style pulled me right in. There were actually a few times I was caught off guard and actually laughed out loud while listening.

Jam Ross did an exceptional job with the narration!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

I'm lost for words...

Normally I start with the story but I'm still figuring out what I want to say so... the narration was excellent, the character voices were first class and the delivery as a whole was perfect for the story.

Speaking of the story... it's not often that you read a book where the main character is experiencing mental illness, possibly because authors worry that they won't be able to accurately show the thoughts of these people. In this story Milicent has a very distinctive way of thinking and it's very interesting to get a glimpse at the world through her eyes.

This is a book that will make you feel. I'm a crier and I didn't cry but I did become attached to Milicent quite quickly and wanted things to go well for her.

There's a fair bit going on and some of it is very unexpected. A great way to spend an afternoon/evening.

I received a free copy of this book from the author and/or narrator and/or publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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Whoop Dee Doo! This was a great listen!

Milicent Le Sueur was a bag lady extraordinaire. I liked this character from the very first words spoken.

This story was unapologetic about the plight of its protagonist. Milicent was a bag lady, not homeless (a distinction with a difference!) She very definitely had OCD but the story was more "Rocky" than "Psycho."

The narration was some of the best I've heard all year. Milicent is written as a sympathetic character and Jan Ross' narration was exceptional. Being inside an atypical bag lady's head could have been unsettling but Ross was on point in every way. Milicent's neurosis and thought processes and mania were in the hands of a pro. I loved, loved, loved how Ross handled Milicent's clarity when medicated and the subtle slide back into her OCD world when she was not. Brilliant!

This was a really great listen from start to finish. Whoop Dee Doo!

Plan To Be Enchanted!

I cannot begin to tell you how much I thoroughly enjoyed this piquant telling of the tale of Milicent Le Sueur. Perfectly and perkily narrated by Jan Ross [AUDIO], this cheerfully bizarre tale of a woman who mentally erases her former identity to become a bag lady very subtly casts a spotlight on the plight of homelessness and the wide variety of people whose lives are not standard nine-to-five suburban fantasies. Meanwhile, our charming heroine, when approached correctly, displays amazing powers of observation and proves infinitely resourceful in solving several murders. Plan to be enchanted!

Disclaimer: "I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review."

Interesting

Not your typical main character but a great listen overall. Great narrator who brought the characters to life with all their quirks. I received a free review copy of this audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.