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A Murder for the Sages by Amy Lillard is this week’s Reader Friday. Here are the first two lines: “Well, it seems to me that somethin’ like that would be durn-near impossible.” George Waters looked around the Sunflower Cafe to see what sort of support he got. But first the photo and verse. With snow on the ground and temps …
Serial Burn by Lynette Eason is this week’s Reader Friday. Here are the first two lines: “Someone had to stop her. She was going to ruin everything if left to do what she planned,” But first the photo and verse. I took the photo last week, I think, as I walked around my neighborhood. It was the first flower I’d …
The Hunted Heir by Jayna Breigh is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first paragraph: ANOTHER NEW YEAR’S Eve, and Nona Taylor’s prayer remained unanswered. Still. The digital clock on the microwave read 6:20. Five hours and forty minutes until midnight. Five hours and forty minutes until she begged God—again—to grant her one, her only, request. But first the photo …
Suppose I Hadn’t Listened by Barbara D’Antoni Diggs is this week’s Reader Friday. Here are the first few lines: Israel 1973. For a week I braved the rush hour traffic between Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington D.C.. On the seventh night, I was asked a question. It never occurred to me my whole life would change if I answered, “Yes.” But …
A Will and a Way (Mysteries of Cobble Hill Farms Book 11) by Johnnie Alexander is this week’s Reader Friday. here’s the first line: “One last tiny stitch, a snip of the thread, and the gentle application of a bandage brought an end to the lifesaving operation.” But first this week’s photo and verse. I took the photo at a …
Lethal Standoff by DiAnn Mills is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: My role as a hostage negotiator often plunged me into the evil designs of the human mind. But first the photo and verse. I took the photo as I walked one Sunday evening in Ocala, Florida with a good friend. We rounded toward the west and …
Undercover Escape by Valerie Hansen is this week’s Reader Friday. Here are the first few lines: Rain pelted the van’s windshield. Professional dog trainer Hannah Lassiter shivered. Her stomach knotted.” But first the photo and verse. Friday night I looked outside and saw a crescent moon with Venus below it, and I believe the smallest star above the moon is …
Cathy’s Christmas Confession by Pattie Shene Gonzales is this week’s Reader Friday book. Here’s the first line: “Cathy Fischer chiseled at the thick ice encasing the windshield of her gunmetal gray Dodge Ram.” But first the verse. I love this verse…maybe because it’s a line I spoke as a kid in our church Christmas play when I was the angel. …
Dangerous Storm by Roxanne Rustand is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: If she’d known about Jason’s pets, Claire might have thought twice about leaving New York without a big stack of books on pet care. But first, the meme and verse. I thought I would share images from past December posts this month. This one was from December …
Cornered, Three Romantic Suspense Novellas, by Lynette Eason (In the Dark), Lynn H. Blackburn (Downfall), and Natalie Walters (Perilous Obsession) is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening of In the Dark: The September sun had barely risen over the mountain town of Lake City, North Carolina, casting a warm, golden glow that filtered through Stephanie Cross’s kitchen window. She sipped …