This week I'm joining in Book Beginnings on Friday. It's hosted by Rose City Reader. This is where we post the beginning of the books we are reading or will be reading.
I'm also joining in for the Friday 56.
Freda at Freda's Voice started and hosted The Friday 56 for a long, long time. She is taking a break and Anne at My Head if Full of Books has taken on hosting duties in her absence. Please visit Anne's blog and link to your Friday 56 post.
Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.
It's that simple.
Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.
It's that simple.
I just started reading this one. So far, so good.
Book Beginnings
Her dog was restless. As dawn seeped through the fog, the girl unzipped a few inches of her sleeping bag, extended an arm, and caressed his fur. Damp. A faint odor of peroxide rose from his undercoat.
This is at 56% on my e-reader.
A soft breeze from the west carried the heavy scent of ripe grapes. She recognized the scent's intensity: It was time to harvest.
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Corporate attorney Nollaig (Noli) Cooper, age 34, is tough, single, and ready to change her life.
When a family birthday brings her back to her childhood home in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Peter and Tina Hanak, her adoptive parents, propose that she stay and live at their zinfandel winery. But her first day back, the body of her childhood mentor, crusading attorney John (Fitz) Fitzgerald, is discovered in a rocky ocean cove, pecked by seagulls. The sheriff insists it was suicide. Noli knows better. She teams up with Fitz’s PI, Luz Alvarado, daughter of Mexican farmworkers, to find his killer.
Noli learns the Hanaks’ winery has been sabotaged and their lives threatened. As threats escalate, Peter Hanak is framed for murder. To defend him, Noli digs through evidence from wildly diverse the ambitions of a 19th Century robber-baron, the oral history of an early winemaker, and research on zinfandel genetics. Meanwhile, Luz risks her life to expose a dot-com mogul who will stop at nothing to acquire the Hanaks’ property. Webs of greed, hatred and revenge are at last untangled when Peter reveals a painful secret he has carried since the Vietnam war. Ultimately Luz puts everything on the line to halt the escape of Fitz’s murderer, and Noli must plunge through a wall of fire to find the answers.
What do you think? What are you sharing today?
Clever play on words for the title: Mortal Zin. Good one.
ReplyDeleteWhat an action packed premise!
ReplyDeleteThat looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very creative cover. I can smell the grapes from here. This sounds good! I hope you continue to enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteOh I like the style of the teasers you shared. This looks like a good read.
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