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 haven't started this one yet, but I love this series. I hope to read this soon. It's the 5th book in the series.
Book Beginnings
Prologue
Saturday evening
June 11
The wind howled loudly outside the Fox Hollow Inn, lending a macabre touch to the murder mystery skit that was being enacted...
This is at 56% on my e-reader.
Suddenly I tensed as all the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I was assailed by the feeling that I wasn't alone.
Synopsis from Goodreads:
When a celebrity chef is murdered, Shell McMillan has to cook up a plan to trap the killer of a man for all seasonings . . .
With adopt-a-cat month in full swing in Fox Hollow, pet shop owner Shell McMillan decides that hosting a night of murder mystery dinner theater will be a fun way to raise funds for the cause. But she didn’t realize that the celebrity chef she’d hired for the event would turn out to be a tyrannical snob, or that her scoundrel of an ex-fiancé would turn up with his own shady agenda. Still, the show must go on, and as the lighthearted plot on-stage unfolds, the scene off-stage turns decidedly darker when the chef is found murdered.
Rather than question an entire roomful of possible suspects, Shell determines that looking into the victim’s past will lead her to the culprit more quickly. What she finds is that the chef had left behind a disreputable past and a trail of disgruntled people, including a long string of women he’d wronged and a host of others who may have been out for revenge. But as Shell closes in on the killer, the killer is closing in on her. And she’s discovering that while too many cooks can spoil the broth, being a murderer’s next target can really ruin your appetite . . .
What do you think? What are you sharing today?
Looks like another good one!
ReplyDeleteA murder mystery dinner theater sounds like a fun setting for a book. I like that the book starts with the wind howling. Sets the mood right away.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently reading My Silver Lining by Laura Pavlov and so far loving it.
That looks good. I love the cover.
ReplyDeleteThis series has been on my TBR for awhile. It sounds really good and I've heard great things about this author.
ReplyDeleteI have this series on my TBR...my ever-growing TBR! :)
ReplyDeleteSounds good! I also love the cover.
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