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The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.
Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or 
so of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.
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Everyone Dies by Michael McGarrity is a mystery, thriller, suspense novel.
My 1st edition hardcover publilshed in 2003.
The jacket design was done by Anthony Ramondo.
My 56
Larranga stood up. “Then make damn sure all the facts are available to present to the grand jury. The only defense you’ve got is to provide conclusive proof above and beyond the officers’ statements that they were forced to stop the action when they came under fire. You’d better hope and pray the evidence is there. I want the reports on my desk by morning.”
(Page 56 in hardcover, published in 2005)
Book Beginnings
Jack Potter, perhaps the most successful and best known attorney in Santa Fe, had recently attended a gay rights costume ball dressed as Lady Justice. The following morning a photograph of a smiling Potter, wearing a shimmering frock, a curly wig, and holding the scales justice and a sword, appeared on the front page of the local paper.
My question to you: Do you have a favorite genre or are you open to that next hidden gem no matter what the subject?
GOODREADS BLURB: The Anthony Award-nominated author with “a cunning mind for crime fiction” (The New York Times Book Review) ratchets up the stakes in a novel of electrifying action and unstoppable suspense, where a vengeful killer with an unspeakable agenda won’t stop until . . . everyone dies.
Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney and his wife, Lieutenant Colonel Sara Brannon, are on leave and eagerly awaiting the birth of their son when a prominent gay attorney is gunned down outside his office by an unknown assailant. Called to the crime scene and faced with scanty evidence and no apparent motive, Kerney directs his chief of detectives to delve into the victim’s personal and professional life, a decision that ultimately leads to a SWAT team screw-up and the death of two innocent people.
But the killer has just begun. Kerney’s horse, a mustang he’d gentled and trained, is viciously and senselessly destroyed; a dead rat is left on his doorstep; and a second victim with ties to the criminal justice system is found in bed with her throat cut along with a warning: EVERYONE DIES.
As a time of joy turns into a nightmare, Kerney and Sara search desperately for a seemingly unstoppable chameleonlike killer who promises to murder them and their unborn son.
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This is so you! LOL Sounds like a good one. I’m not sure if I’ve read this author before.
My Friday 56 from Bulletproof Badge
Yep. It’s funny but I never really that most of the older books on my shelves are mystery and suspense. Since blogging I have added a lot of genres I never used to read. Love finding new stuff.
Wow, this one sounds like a page-turner. Thanks for sharing, and enjoy! And thanks for visiting my blog.
These are my favorite type of books and I love physical copies. Have a great weekend, Laurel.
I do hope the title isn’t a spoiler! Sounds like a fun read. Today I’m featuring The Underachieving Ovary by JT Lawrence.
LOL Good one.
Sounds like a fast-paced read! Happy weekend!
Right back atcha, Freda.
This sounds like a good one.
Hi Brenda. Happy reading.
Well that title certainly catches my attention! I do have a favorite genre. Fantasy is my go-to, but I’m not unwilling to read from other genres. Happy weekend!
Oh yeah, I love a good fantasy too, thought my fave is suspense/thriller.
Hi Sherry,
I too, have quite a lot of elderly printed edition books left lounging on my many bookshelves. I keep promising myself to clear a good stack of them, but new review requests arrive weekly and it just never happens!
With the exception of pure fantasy and science fiction, I am willing to give any genre a try, although a good murder/mystery, psychological/thriller, will always do it for me the most!
I like the sound of ‘Everyone Dies’, however I see that it is book #8 in the series, so I doubt that I shall ever find the time to start reading ‘Kearney and Brannon’ from scratch, but thanks for sharing 🙂
Yvonne
No worries. You can dive in anywhere. They do stand alone. 🙂
I love the sound of this book – definitely a series I want to check out. Here’s my Friday meme
Glad to hear it, Maria. Happy reading.
This looks really good.
Hope you had a great weekend, Yvonne.
I’ve never really stuck myself in one genre so thrillers like this one sound good to me 😉
If I limit myself, I’m afraid I’ll miss that hidden gem, so I try to keep an open mind, though thrillers and suspense are still my favorites.
Just the title itself reminds me of half of my favorite shows… 😀
Lauren @ Always Me
I know what you mean, Lauren. 🙂