Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Reader Friday”
Secrets Between the Shelves, 4 Cozy Bookshop Mysteries by Cynthia Hickey, Linda Baten Johnson, Teresa Ives Lily, and Marilyn Turk is this week’s Reader Friday! Here’s the first line from Murder in the Mystery Section: “I unlocked the door to Through the Looking Glass and flipped the sign on the door to OPEN.” But first the photo and verse. I …
Attempted Mountain Abduction by Jessica R. Patch is this week’s Reader Friday. Since it’s so hot around here, I thought I’d take you somewhere cooler…like the Great Smoky Mountains in winter. Here’s the first line: Bridge Spencer stepped onto his cabin’s porch, shivering at the biting cold, but something icier hovered in the January wind and scraped his nerves like …
The Puzzle Within by Gina Holder is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: Ari planted her palms flat against the desktop and locked gazes with Senior Special Agent Matt Updike. I didn’t become a federal agent to babysit a diplomat’s spoiled daughter. But first the photo and verse. I took the photo as I winged my way north to …
Fellowship of the Frazzled Moms by Stephanie Paige King is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: Executives in corner offices had nothing on housewives working at their kitchen counters. But first the photo and verse. Sunday morning, late as usual, I backed into the pullout in my drive and happened to look toward my lantana bush. There on one …
Fatal Standoff (Desert Shadows Suspense Book 2) by Ruth Douthitt is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: It’d been one of those weeks–the kind that made even the simplest task feel overwhelming. But first the photo and verse. This is one of the grands racing into the waves at Dauphin Island. He’s the adrenalin junkie–never met a challenge …
The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House by Joanna Davidson Politano is this week’s Reader Friday. Here are the opening lines: Grafton, Shropshire, England, 1901. It was a strangely calm morning in March, with no wind off the dales, when the woman I assumed to be my mother slipped into the shop. But first the photo and verse. The photo was …
Story Magic by Terri Lynn Thompson is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening: In Ireland magic was real. I knew if I could make it through the school year to summer, we would pack our bags and fly to that wonderful land of fantasy, where strong men fought dragons to save their fair ladies, where fairies lurked behind every …
The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd Book 1) by Charles Martin is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening: “Three miles distant, the trail of smoke spiraled upward. Thick and black it poured from the twin supercharged diesels housed in the engine room. Orange and red flames licked the smoke against a fading blue skyline, telling me the fire was hot and …
Sweet Double-Cross is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first paragraph: “Dead. They’re all dead.” Biochemist Dennis Early stared at the Sweet County, Florida, cornfield in disbelief. The sun crested the tree line and colored the muggy Florida morning with an eerie orange. He swiped at a bead of sweat—not from the weather but out of horror—seeing the devastation of …
Two Seconds Too Late by Dani Pettrey is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening: Thwack. The bullet collided with the car at Riley’s back a moment before a retort echoed in the stale air of the junkyard. But first the photo and verse. It’s that time of year again when the magnolias bloom in Mississippi. It’s the state flower, …