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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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Next up on the shelf is The Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver.
Jeffrey Deaver is a New York Times Bestselling author and pens the Lincoln Rhyme series. Each book can stand alone.
For the suspense/thriller lovers out there, these are must read novels.
MY FRIDAY 56
He glanced out the window to avoid having to shake her moist hand, tipped with five white squooshy worms.
“Pleased to meet you,” he said, turning back, sippig his new cup of tea, which he found disgustig. Sheila noticed that two of her stubby nails were dirty. She tried unobtrusively to dig the crud from under them.
(page 56 in paperback)
MY BOOK BEGINNINGS
When Edward Carney said good-bye to his wife, Percey, he never thought it would be the last time he’d see her.
AMAZON SYNOPSIS
Smokeout’s bitingly entertaining portrait of a misbehaving Florida state legislature drew raves for both its inventiveness and timeliness, and the Providence Journal declared, “Carl Hiaasen may have an heir apparent.” Now, Date takes out after another cherished state institution, and the results are every bit as subversive.
In the “ideal” designed community of Serenity, Florida, pride of the late theme-park king Waldo Whipple, things are far from ideal. The houses are listing, the regulations are onerous, the mayor is lecherous, and the occasional Wild Dominion animal has started turning up dead. Graffiti is sprouting in odd places-“Serenityites Arise!” and “WWWS: What Would Waldo Say?”-and when a reporter begins poking around, he quickly discovers that Waldo’s successors have a decidedly different vision for America’s Hometown-and if certain people don’t stop interfering with it, animals won’t be the only things that start turning up dead. . . .
Filled with wicked humor and razor-sharp plotting, Deep Water is delightfully twisted-and maybe more plausible than any of us would like to think.
Which cover do you like best?
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Haven’t read one of his books in a while. I like the green cover best.
I’ve never read Deaver despite my enjoyment of thrillers. I’ll have to give him a try. I am spotlighting Mind Magic by Eileen Wilks – the latest in an urban fantasy series I like. Happy reading!
Not read this author but that book sounds interesting. 🙂
Stormi
Friday Memes
Coffin Dancer is an intriguing title. What you shared was very vivid. “…tipped with five white squooshy worms.” Ick! lol
Love Deaver, this was a good one. I like the yellow cover.
I like the yellow cover best, but between it, the beginning and 56, it sounds like a gripping read!
Happy Easter weekend!
The quote from page 56 is sad. Can you imagine having the memory of the last kiss?