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Voice Mail Murder (Pamela Barnes Acoustic Mysteries Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Patricia Rockwell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
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Sex! Knives! Voice Mail Messages!

Who stabbed the philandering football coach in the back? Was it one of the three women who left romantic voice mail messages on the cell phone found next to his body in the motel room?

The police don’t have a clue. None of the coach’s family, friends, or colleagues recognize the voices of the unidentified women--and probable mistresses. Who could they be? This sounds like a case for Pamela Barnes, local Psychology professor, acoustics expert, and sometimes amateur sleuth. Can she identify the three women (and potential murder suspects) from just the sound of their voices on the voice mail?

Who are these mystery women and how did the popular coach manage to conduct affairs with all of them unbeknownst to everyone around him? And how did he keep his trio of lovers from finding out about each other—or did he? It’s a tangled romantic web that ultimately led to murder and Pamela Barnes is determined to figure it out.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0053D56TY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cozy Cat Press (May 29, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 29, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 384 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 260 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

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Patricia Rockwell

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Patricia Rockwell is the author of the Pamela Barnes acoustic mystery series. This amateur sleuth solves crimes using her knowledge of sound. The series includes SOUNDS OF MURDER, FM FOR MURDER, VOICE MAIL MURDER, STUMP SPEECH MURDER, and MURDER IN THE ROUND. Her new series, Essie Cobb senior sleuth, features a 90-year-old assisted living facility resident who solves mysteries. The books in this series include BINGOED, PAPOOSED, VALENTINED, and GHOSTED. FIRECRACKERED, the fifth in the series, will launch on June 25, 2016.

Dr. Rockwell has spent most of her life teaching. From small liberal arts colleges to large regional research universities--and even a brief stint in a high school, her background in education is extensive. She has taught virtually everything related to Communication--from a fine arts speech-theatre orientation to more recently a social science research approach. Her Bachelors' and Masters' degrees are from the University of Nebraska in Speech and her Ph.D. is from the University of Arizona in Communication. She was on the faculty at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for thirteen years, retiring in 2007.

Her publications are extensive, with over 20 peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals, several textbooks, and a research book on her major interest area of sarcasm, published by Edwin Mellen Press. In addition to publications, she has presented numerous papers at academic conferences and served for eight years as Editor of the Louisiana Communication Journal. Her research focuses primarily on several areas of communication: deception, sarcasm, and vocal cues.

She is presently living in Aurora, Illinois, with her husband Milt, also a retired educator. The couple has two adult children.

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Patricia M. Keil
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2013
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Very good book I could hardly put it down. I will probably read it again soon thanks for a good book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant Addition to Series
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2011
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For those of us who have listened to (or read) the two previous adventures of the college professor who uses her special knowledge to aid the police in the solution of crimes, this is a pleasant, if not exciting, reunion with familiar characters. For newcomers, it should be sufficiently entertaining, to warrant purchasing the two earlier books in this series carried on Kindle. I make the distinction between newcomers and veteran readers because the author has fallen into a pattern which is no longer as fresh it was. Still readable but no longer distinctive. Perhaps a little of the same feeling has struck the author since I see (and have purchased but not yet read) the first in a new series by her appearing on Kindle.
In this volume, as in the first of the series, a faculty colleague, the enormously successful football coach, has been struck down after a bit of sex not with his invalid wife. Who dun it. The Professor is called in again by the detective in charge of the investigation to apply herself to analyzing the messages left on his cell phone. She does her job insofar as the evidence allows, solicits closer, continuing relationships, with the Detective and, well, you can take it from there.
An interesting aspect of this book is the way in which the author allows the professor's modesty about her contribution (put on to assuage her husbands distaste for the danger she has faced in previous cases) to be an accurate appraisal of her actual role.
At any rate, as I have said, this is a well-written books, as are the previous ones in the series, by a retired Academic, who makes good use of her knowledge of the foibles of that profession, It is a fast read which intends to avoid the complications of a Ross MacDonald or a Patricia Cornwall, and succeeds to the benefit of the reader who seeks only light escape reading,
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4.0 out of 5 stars easy mystery
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2012
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I liked the characters in the book, and the plot. I found it an easy read, but it also held my interest. Although the story is unlikely, the idea is fun.
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Kat
5.0 out of 5 stars Good mystery
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2013
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This is book three in the series.

Coach Croft from Grace University has been murdered.
Lt. Shoop asks Pamela for help by going through the
voice mail of the coach. Who killed him? His wife?
One of his lovers? Or someone else? Can Pamela find
out before she becomes a victim?

There seem to be a lot of spaces between the chapters (2-3 pages)
Chapters 2-12, 14-16, 19-20, 22-25, & 28-30. A minor annoyance.

Must read!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good characters; good plot
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2014
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I enjoy Ms. Rockwell's books quite a lot. I have just one nit pick regarding this one. The formatting was such that there were multiple blank pages between each chapter -- sometimes as many pages as were in the chapter. This did make it hard to stay "in" the book.
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Linda Nagoda
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2014
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great read
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LynnH927
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2014
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I found this book boring and trite, with no character development and an unbelievable plotline.
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Nancy L. Bradford
4.0 out of 5 stars Third in the series and best yet.
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2011
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This third book of the adventures of Dr. Pamela Barnes is the best yet. Dr. Barnes is a Psychology professor and acoustics expert yet she manages to find time to help the police in solving murders. Ms Rockwell has given just enough background from the first two books for a new reader to understand how Dr Barnes works. I enjoyed this book very much and would recommend to anyone who loves Cozies.
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Avid Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars The Third's a Charm!
Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2013
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VOICE MAIL MURDER, the third in the Pamela Barnes Acoustic Mystery series is a great followup novel. There is a little more "spice" in this one, descriptive enough to give readers the details of adult relationships, but stays on the cozy side of taste. The main characters of her family and colleagues are developing in their own worlds and interests, as well as the growing relationship of Pamela and detective Shoop and her reputation of a good snoop make for a fun read.
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Irene Thompson
5.0 out of 5 stars Sounds solve mysteries
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2013
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Another good well crafted book from this series. Enough technical information without being bogged down. I would recommend this series to everyone.
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