Friday Memes

This week I am posting from A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

On the morning Vera died I woke up very early.

Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

The ticking was muffled but still audible. The awful feeling came over me that I should never be able to sleep and that this would not be for one night only but many, many nights, a hundred perhaps.

Friday Memes

This week I am posting from The Caller by Karin Fossum
Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

The child slept in a pram behind the house.

Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

He liked the smell of the furry little creature, and the eyes which shone like black pearls.

Friday Memes

This week I am posting from The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill
Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

Rain, rain all day, all evening, all night, pouring autumn rain.

Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

The guard's whistle blew as the door slammed shut and I found myself alone with a striking-looking woman who was surrounded by suitcases, bags and hat-boxes and sitting with a very upright posture in the opposite seat.

Friday Memes

This week I am posting from Perfect People by Peter James.
Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

Late on an April afternoon, thirty nautical miles east of Cape Cod, a wind-blown young couple with luggage and worried faces are standing on the helicopter deck of a converted cruise liner, gripping the handrail.


Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

Sometimes I have the sense he is contemptuous of ordinary human emotions. That he feels we should be above these and on some higher plane.
That he has some kind of hidden agenda.

Friday Memes

This week I am posting from Phantom by Jo Nesbo
Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

The squeals were calling her. Like acoustic spears they pierced all the other noises of the night in the Oslo city centre: the regular drone of cars outside the window, the distant siren that rose and fell, and the church bells that had begun to chime nearby.


Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

Beate didn't answer. She didn't need to. Harry knew she knew what he was doing, grasping at straws.

Friday Memes

This week I am posting from Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

Prologue
Maria hardly registered what was happening during the funeral.

1
The emergency line received a call from a mobile phone shortly after midnight.

Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

Everything was as it should have been, as if she had just popped out for a moment.

Friday Memes

Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader. This week I am posting from When Red is Black by Qiu Xiaolong.

Detective Yu Guangming of the Shangai Police Bureau stood alone, still reeling from the blow.

Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book. As page 56 is blank and 156 may have spoilers, I am posting from page 56 of my next week's read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

The news hit me squarely and hard. Revenge had been a prime emotion keeping me together over the past two weeks.

Friday Memes

This week I am posting from Small Island by Andrea Levy

Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

Prologue
Queenie
I thought I'd been to Africa. Told all my class I had.

One
Hortense
It brought it all back to me. Celia Langley. Celia Langley standing in front of me, her hands on her hips and her head in a cloud.

Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

There were sixty pupils in the first class I had to teach. Sixty children fidgeting like vermin behind rows of wooden desks.

Friday Memes on Saturday

This week I am posting from The Saint Zita Society by Ruth Rendell

Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our current read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he, but she had a palace and he had one room in a street off Warwick Way.

Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

Montserrat asked her if she knew where the Yellow Pages were.

'No one uses phone directories any more,' said Lucy. 'This is the age of the cellphone or hadn't you noticed?'

Friday Memes

This week I am posting from my next read, Alanna Knight's Quest for a Killer

Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly meme where we share the opening line of our read. Book Beginnings is hosted by the Rose City Reader.

Autumn 1899

That sunny morning, as I stood at my kitchen door in Solomon's Tower, surveying the peaceful little garden, the swallows had left their ancient nesting places and another sound obliterated the raucous cries of corbies, eerie black shapes forever haunting the lofty crown of Arthur's Seat.


Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current book.

And that, as fate would have it, was closer than I ever expected.

Friday Memes

Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly Meme hosted at A Few More Pages..

This is from Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

I drove out to Glendale to put three new truck drivers on a brewery company bond, and then I remembered this renewal over in Hollywoodland.


Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of any book. This is also from Double Indemnity by James M. Cain.

When I saw her face I knew something was wrong.

Friday Memes

Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly Meme hosted at A Few More Pages.

This is from The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell

He had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it.


Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of any book. This is also from Ruth Rendell's The Monster in the Box

He was a great believer in men and women having a 'type' they adhered to in changing partners.

Friday Memes

Friday Book Beginnings is a weekly Meme hosted at A Few More Pages.

This is from The Vault by Ruth Rendell

'A curious world we live in,' said Franklin Merton, 'where one can afford a house but not a picture of a house. That must tell us some profound truth. But what, I wonder?'

Yes some really profound truth. But what, I too wonder?

Friday 56 hosted @ Freda's Voice is a weekly Meme where we share an interesting snippet from page 56 of our current read. This is also from Ruth Rendell's The Vault

'On holiday, I reckon, and while the cat's away the mice will play. That's all it was, a try-on.'