Happy Friday book lovers! We’re back with another First Lines Friday, a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Here are the rules:
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First lines:
“There are at least three dead bodies in there.
Tess Harrow stood in front of the log cabin, mentally calculating where each of the corpses would be found.”
Do you recognise the book these first lines come from?
*drumroll please!*
Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry
Bestselling thriller writer Tess Harrow is almost at the end of her rope when she arrives with her teenage daughter at her grandfather’s rustic cabin in the woods. She hopes this will be a time for them to heal and bond after Tess’s recent divorce, but they’ve barely made it through the door when an explosion shakes the cabin. Suddenly it’s raining fish guts and…is that a human arm?
📖 KEEP READING…
Tess was hardly convincing Gertie that a summer without Wi-Fi and running water would be an adventure. Now she’s thrust into a murder investigation, neighbors are saying they’ve spotted Bigfoot in the woods near her cabin, and the local sheriff is the spitting image of her character Detective Gabriel Gonzales―something he’s less than thrilled about. With so much more than her daughter’s summer plans at stake, it’s up to Tess to solve this case before anyone else gets hurt.
Have you read Buried in a Good Book or is it on your TBR?
dinipandareads 
Ok, I’m intrigued! Love the first lines, and the story sounds great.
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I finished it this weekend and had a lot of fun with it 🙂 A great cosy mystery!
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I remember reading this one, it was a fun cozy mystery, Dini.
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I really enjoyed it! Can’t wait to continue the series 🙂
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Whoa that’s unexpected, I thought it’s going to be a thriller! xD
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I knew it was a cosy mystery but I had no idea what else to expect. It was so funny 😂 I loved it and would defo recommend!
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