Hunting the Amish Witness by Dana R. Lynn is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: Miriam Troyer gently set the baby carrier she’d lugged up the stairs to her second-floor apartment onto the floor. But first the photo and verse. I have no idea where the photo was taken…probably in my neighborhood and at least 8 or 10 …
Fire Mountain ~ Reader Friday
Fire Mountain by Dana Mentink is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: “Cold and ice-pick pain bored into Kit Garrido’s temple.” And that is an awesome opening line! I wish I’d written it. 🙂 But first the photo and verse. Once again, this is a photo of Lake Superior, and I’m not certain if I took it in Canada or …
Secrets Between the Shelves ~ 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 ~ Reader Friday
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 ~ Reader Friday
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 ~ Reader Friday
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 ~ Reader Friday
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 ~ Reader Friday
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 ~ Reader Friday
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 ~ Reader Friday
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 …










