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Better Off Dead: A Sordid True Story of Sex, Sin, and Murder

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Better Off Dead: A Sordid True Story of Sex, Sin, and Murder

By: Michael Fleeman
Narrated by: Michael Kinzie
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A frustrated, unhappy wife. Her much younger, attentive lover. A husband who degrades and ignores her. The stage is set for a love-triangle murder that shatters family illusions and lays bare a quiet family community's seedy secret world of sex, sin, and swinging.

Better Off Dead, the latest true crime book from New York Times best-selling author Michael Fleeman, strips away the pleasant veneer of the Silver Lakes neighborhood in California's high desert to tell a shocking story about a headline-grabbing crime.

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Compelling Storyline • Fascinating Story • Good Narration • Gripping True Crime • Riveting Courtroom Drama
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True crime writer Michael Fleeman presents the love triangle involving a California couple, involving the wife's younger lover, Jonathan Hearn. Sabrina Limon met her future lover while working at Costco, and it escalated into a torrid lover affair. The author shares the transcripts of many secret conversations between the lovers using a wiretapped burner phone. The ultimate question is, did the couple plot to kill Robert Limon, a hard working father of two, so they could be together? In the end, Limon and Hearn would testify against each other. "Better Off Dead" exposes the truth behind this shocking homicide, and takes you inside the court room for the drama surrounding this scandalous crime.

A gripping true crime story

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Appreciated the performance. Story was interesting to me as I have family who work for BNSF in a different state!

Written in a very straightforward reporting style! Easy to follow!

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This was an ok book, but it seemed to be lacking. There was no real character development, and the story itself was vague. Kinda bland.
The narration was good, with one exception....the tone used for the detective made him sound like a game show host. It was weird. However, that would not keep me from trying another audible narrated by Michael Kinzie.

Just ok

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Compelling story telling, and author, who unravels the mystery and characters of this true crime book.

Good narrator

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I don't think this narrator read this book before he began recording. I'll find the verdict on-line. I lasted QUITE a while. The pronunciation of Gullian-Barre as "Gee-lon Berry" syndrome was the end of me.

Narrator never saw the book before...

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I lost count of mispronunciation of common words and poor edits on retakes. Even worse, his impersonation of women is so bad, it’s insulting lol

Narration is sub par

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Another wife gone wild. I think she just wanted to have fun. The husband got in the way.

Deceived

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Good grief, there's a plethora of low-character people in this story who clearly think very highly of themselves, it truly made for a fascinating listen! Obviously, the wife (Sabrina) and the supposedly Christian boyfriend (Jonathan) are murderous dirtbags - they killed the husband. But once you start hearing about the husband and the other players involved, this just sounds like it could've been scripted from a Sodom and Gomorrah storyline. Listen, just because the victim was murdered does NOT give him a free pass from being a dirtbag in life - he was passing his wife around like a bag of popcorn, and fooling around on her constantly - all the while being furious with her for finding a boyfriend. The friend who turned them in - another dirtbag who was the feminine half of a swinger couple that loved to strip naked at parties made the murder victim sound like a blameless saint! I realize this is a true story and my frank honesty might be too "sensitive or hurtful" to some... but there is no hero or heroine here to like and root for. Except for possibly the jury, the Prosecutor and the Judge. lol I definitely recommend it - it's very well written, entertaining and the narrator's breathy reading of Sabrina had me in knots! Seriously, 5 stars all around. (PS. I don't find the murder funny at all, Sabrina and Jonathan are exactly where they deserve to be, being a dirtbag does not justify being murdered.)

Dirtbags galore!!!

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A cautionary tale of what can happen when you let your emotions run your life. Such a sad case that should not have happened and could have been avoided with a little bit of self control.

Evil wins when you let your emotions go unchecked.

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not one of those books that you can't put down but definitely a good read

good

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