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The Lipstick Murders
- The Faye-Lynn Johnson Mysteries, Book 1
- Narrated by: Cassandra Arnold
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
Chief of Police Nick Burns opens a 12-year-old cold case, and long-submerged secrets begins to surface. Detective Faye-Lynn Johnson, to whom the case is assigned, learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer has done this before and will kill again. She must solve the biggest case of her career before the killer strikes again.
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- Norma Miles
- 20-10-23
"I love you with all my heart."
It was Faye Lynn Johnson's first day as a rookie police officer when the woman's body was found, lipstick lips painted on her left breast but she would be a detective before the case was solved ten years later. Meanwhile there were other killings and there was a vicious rapist at large. The two stories intertwine and the idea is a good one but, sadly, badly presented. Amateurish writing with a mixture of perspectives and tenses, the author seems to pursue one story at the expense of the other only remembering it again later, returning with much repetition. Characterization is plodding and flat but in neither the murder or the raping was the culprit a mystery. The sex scenes, too, we're graphic and unedifying.
Read by Cassandra Arnold:. her reading is too robotic to lift this story which, as previously noted, is itself too disjointed to be fully enjoyable: more like the preparatory draught than the finished book. A pity as it has potential
I downloaded The Lipstick Murders as a complimentary copy from Audiobooks Unleashed. My thanks to the rights holder for making it freely available to all who wish to read it. At four and one half hours in it's present state it is too long to be enjoyable beyond the first quarter of the book but there is promise there, hidden in the messy writing.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- sue ward
- 04-01-22
Has potential
Format: audiobook
Narrator: Cassandra Arnold
Narrator’s delivery is a bit robotic sounds a bit like an automated voice.
Starts with a murderer who leaves lipstick marks as his calling card then suddenly the story switches to a rapist ? Left me confused at the sudden switch.
There’s a bit of repetition when the new detective reviews the cases, I don’t think it needed the whole recap as the detective reads the files as it’s info the reader already has.
Not a bad story but it didnt leave me reaching for the next book.
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- The-Scarlet-Finch
- 21-03-22
3.5 Stars.
This is my first novel by Ricky Corum.
It follows several perspectives as a serial rapist & murderer terrorises the women in a small town. Cassandra Arnold did an amazing job in flitting between what was a very ambitious decision to tell the story from multiple angles, I do think some editing could have helped polish up the overall plot, and keep the fast paced tone of the novel. It was a very interesting premise. I enjoyed it.
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- VoraciousBookDragoness
- 02-09-23
A very well written mystery and good narration
A very well written mystery and good narration.
I am voluntarily reviewing a complimentary copy I received from the author.
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- John Marsden
- 06-09-23
Lipstick Murders
A good first story from Ricky Coram. A multiangle tale with more than one plot line running alongside each other. Well written with interesting characters. Recommended listen.
Narration was very good and I think the narrator fitted the voices to each character well and brought them to life.
I was kindly given a copy of the book by the author and leave this honest review.
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- caroline
- 13-09-23
Great listen a new favourite series
I really enjoyed the start to this series and the narration really worked. Yes I found some plot holes but I just went with it. I kept listening as I wanted to find out what happened next and before I knew it I was at the end, it was that addictive.
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- Siobhan D
- 16-09-23
murder
I enjoyed listening to Cassandra Arnold
Frederick Maryland, is a rapist as well as a serial murderer and back in two town. Nick Burns is Chief of Police, from Chicago, This is a fast paced enough suspense to keep you guessing
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- Macca
- 03-10-24
Good story line
The narration is robotic almost AI and doesn't show any emotion. it's a good idea for a story but is let down by a number of things. There is a lack of bacground and description to each murder. just a murder and then to the next.
The start of chapters are confusing. one paragraph and then it jumps ahead.
Not for me
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