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The Lipstick Murders

The Faye-Lynn Johnson Mysteries, Book 1

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The Lipstick Murders

By: Ricky A. Corum
Narrated by: Cassandra Arnold
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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.

©2020 Ricky Corum (P)2023 Ricky Corum Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Thriller

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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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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.

Has potential

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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.

3.5 Stars.

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A very well written mystery and good narration.
I am voluntarily reviewing a complimentary copy I received from the author.

A very well written mystery and good narration

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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.

Lipstick Murders

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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


murder

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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.

Great listen a new favourite series

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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

Good story line

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