Monday, September 11, 2023

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros - September 12th



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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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!



This one has been on my Kindle TBR for a long time.  I really hope to get a chance to read it soon.






First Chapter

It's the little signs that end up meaning something.  The fog.  One man's odd restlessness.  Another person's new confidence.  The signs we ignore at our peril.

Teaser...

I pushed up to standing and pulled my phone out of the small bag I always wore when I went outside.  My skin turned numb as I jabbed at 911, my shaking finger slipping a couple of times until the call connected.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Cape Cod bicycle shop owner Mackenzie "Mac" Almeida and her book club must find a crafty killer in this charming new series from the Agatha-nominated author of the Country Store Mystery series!

A Cape Cod shop owner and her book club must find a crafty killer in this charming new series from the Agatha-nominated author of the Country Store Mystery series.

Summer is busy season for Mackenzie "Mac" Almeida's bicycle shop, nestled in the quaint, seaside hamlet of Westham, Massachusetts. She's expecting an influx of tourists at Mac's Bikes; instead she discovers the body of Jake Lacey. Mac can't imagine anyone stabbing the down-on-his-luck handyman. However, the authorities seem to think Mac is a strong suspect after she was spotted arguing with Jake just hours before his death. Mac knows she didn't do it, but she does recognize the weapon--her brother Derrick's fishing knife.

Mac's only experience with murder investigations is limited to the cozy mysteries she reads with her local book group, the Cozy Capers. So to clear her name--and maybe her brother's too--Mac will have to summon help from her Cozy Capers co-investigators and a library's worth of detectives' tips and tricks. For a small town, Westham is teeming with possible killers, and this is one mystery where Mac is hoping for anything but a surprise ending...

What do you think? Would you keep reading?




3 comments:

  1. I'll have to hop over to Goodreads and check this out. Anything to do with Cape Cod catches my fancy.
    sherry @ fundinmental

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  2. I read this one soon after it came out and really enjoyed it but never went farther into the series. Thanks for the reminder! I hope you enjoy it!

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