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Dirty Kiss, Book 1

By: Rhys Ford
Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
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A Cole McGinnis Mystery

Cole Kenjiro McGinnis, ex-cop and PI, is trying to get over the shooting death of his lover when a supposedly routine investigation lands in his lap. Investigating the apparent suicide of a prominent Korean businessman's son proves to be anything but ordinary, especially when it introduces Cole to the dead man's handsome cousin, Kim Jae-Min.

Jae-Min's cousin had a dirty little secret, the kind that Cole has been familiar with all his life and that Jae-Min is still hiding from his family. The investigation leads Cole from tasteful mansions to seedy lover's trysts to Dirty Kiss, the place where the rich and discreet go to indulge in desires their traditional-minded families would rather know nothing about.

It also leads Cole McGinnis into Jae-Min's arms, and that could be a problem. Jae-Min's cousin's death is looking less and less like a suicide, and Jae-Min is looking more and more like a target. Cole has already lost one lover to violence-he's not about to lose Jae-Min too.

©2011 Rhys Ford (P)2014 Dreamspinner Press Literature & Fiction Romance Romantic Suspense Suspense
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I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Greg reading the first in this amazing series. Rhys writes her characters with depth setting them in a story line which twist and turns. Greg handles the different voices of those characters with consummate ease. Rhys hasn’t set him an easy task with Korean American and Filipino Korean accents to handle. Add that to American Irish Japanese and the guy needs a medal. He brings the characters I love to life. There’s always a danger that the narrator’s interpretation of the characters in one’s head won’t match that in one’s own but in Greg’s hands that wasn’t the case. Cole and Jae Min came to life and especially, Scarlet, who is such a sweet character. I put off by the audio version because I wasn’t sure anyone could do these characters justice. I was wrong so I’m off to buy

Great story, great narration

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Where does Dirty Kiss, Book 1 rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The author is a favourite of mine and I'm always confident of a good, well written story so reasonably highly but the choice of narrator definitely impacted my enjoyment of the story.

What did you like best about this story?

The thought and care given to the characters and their backstories. The surrounding cast and the narrative drive throughout taking you to the big reveal.

What three words best describe Greg Tremblay’s performance?

Stilted, jerky, uncomfortable.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Two Worlds Collide...

Any additional comments?

I did enjoy this book very much (I've mostly come to this author via the audio medium) but I had to work at it because of the narrator. I couldn't work out if he was actually pausing for punctuation in the written text or if his performance style was actually so awkward. It definitely wasn't as smooth a listen as some of the performers I've listened to - the narrator delivers his performance in short, staccato bursts that definitely wear on you after a while. This is the first book by the author that I've had to take a break from and come back to rather than resentfully stopping it to concentrate on other things. The story itself is good - well written, the characters intresting and engaging and the dialogue snappy. The book is well worth a credit and I'm following the series but I probably won't follow the narrator outside of the Rhys Ford's work.

Entertaining

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Any additional comments?

When I READ a book, I don't much like single person POV in the first person. You know this, I say it often enough,
BUT
I've decided that when LISTENING I love a book written that way! LOVE. WHY?? Here its the book, the story, yes, but its also that absolute sterling performance by Greg Tremblay.

I'm getting ahead of myself, I usually talk about the book first and then the narration.

Dirty Kiss is the first book in this series, about Cole McGinnis. Cole is an ex-cop turned private investigator and is employed to look inot the death of a Korean business man's son, which is deemed suicide. It brings Cole into contact with the amn's cousin, Kim Jae-Min. And Cole falls, HARD. But Jae-Min is living a secret, a dirty secret that Cole has lived with all his life. And Cole won't let Jae-Min go, not now he is safe.

I'm trying really hard to seperate the book from the narration, and I can't. Its impossible. Greg is Cole McGinnis and its just like sitting down and having a conversation with someone telling you what they did to solve this case and what he did to keep the guy. Greg is just brilliant in that conversation and his voice is clear, his accents amazing. I LOVED Scarlett. And although the differences in the Korean characters are slight, its enough for me to make out who is who. Greg's chatting voice is low and even, and you get right through to the heart of Cole, all through Greg's reading.

While the case is solved, Cole and Jae-Min's story isn't finished. Not quite a happy-ever-after, more a happy-for-now sort of ending.

Action, drama, thriller, murder, love, sex, culture clashes, getting over your demons, and finding new ones, this book has it all.

An absolute stunning performance. by Greg, of an absolutely fabulous book by Rhys Ford.

I'm off to get book 2 :-)

5 stars for the book and 5 for the narration

stunning performance of a stunning book

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Where does Dirty Kiss, Book 1 rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Detective Cole has ruined my life AOA, I think that this says it all pretty much

What was one of the most memorable moments of Dirty Kiss, Book 1?

as cliche as it may sound it was when Cole opened the door and saw Jae- Min for the first time and then he fell in love :333

Have you listened to any of Greg Tremblay’s other performances? How does this one compare?

No I haven't but this one was great! I loved the Korean accent it made every thing so realistic and fun :)

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Pretty much I was done with this in 2 days, yes I have no life...

Any additional comments?

It is a great book, I will now go and read the sequel. The mystery and engaging plot were amazing. The sex bits where hawt addition to the over all great outcome, so stop reading this review and go listen to this book AOA

Dirty Kiss (っ˘з(˘⌣˘ )

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I really loved her Chinatown Demons and hoped this was similar, so I took a chance. I struggled with the Korean names and kept getting mixed up as to who was who, also the detective side of it seemed to peter out and became more of a romance novel.
The only good thing for me was Greg's performance as narrator, as usual so brilliant with well defined voices for each character.

Really struggled with this and wont be carrying on with the series.

Didn't engage with story

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