First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros/Teaser Tuesdays - September 29th

It's Tuesday!  It's time to share your excerpts and teasers from books we are currently reading, have read or are planning to read.  So, feel free to join us by sharing the first paragraph or (a few) of a book you are reading or thinking about reading soon.  This meme is guaranteed to increase your TBR :)



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I, also, participate and link up to Teaser Tuesdays.  Here's info about that meme:

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, now being hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:


* Grab your current read

* Open to a random page

* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I featured this one on Friday, but I'm still reading it so I figured I would post more teasers today. The excerpts are from the E-ARC...

First Chapter... 

"I'm late," Naomi muttered.  She turned right out of the trailer park and heard a faint grinding coming from the white van.  She wondered about the health of the wheel bearings, if the suspension needed repair.  Before Abe died, he kept the family's vehicles in top condition.

A little more than a year since Abe's passing, their world had become infinitely harder, and Naomi had begun to think of her life as before and after.  Before, they had the big house in town.  Mornings were busy but manageable.  A calming force, Abe circulated and gave each child a kiss on the forehead and encouraged them to study hard and make him proud.


Teaser...

Normally, Naomi would have driven up to the house and parked near the front door, but something - she wasn't sure what - so bothered her about the scene that she stopped a hundred feet back, close to the barn.  For a moment, she hesitated, uneasy.


Synopsis from Goodreads:

Her pulse pounded in her ears as she scanned the house. Her eyes traveled over the porch where three empty chairs lazily rocked in the breeze, surrounded by scattered children’s toys. In the yard, there were mounds of earth. Graves. Only big enough for children…

When Detective Clara Jefferies is called to a family ranch just outside of Alber, Utah, she’s horrified to find two innocent young children murdered alongside their mothers. But she arrives at the scene quickly enough to rush their father, Jacob Johansson, to hospital where he begins fighting for his life, and to save his two-month-old son Jeremy, left untouched in his crib.

As Clara begins to investigate, nothing she finds out makes sense. Though she uncovers photos of one of Jacob’s wives in his best friend’s trailer, her flower necklace underneath his bed, there are rumors that she was in love with a different man altogether. And as the close-knit community comes together to support Jacob, Clara’s own family shut her out of the investigation…

But Clara won’t give up. With the killer still at large, baby Jeremy is at risk, and every moment her family are helping Jacob they are also in danger. To earn her family’s trust, Clara finally has to face the past, but can she do it before it’s too late?

What do you think? Would you keep reading?