Books: First Lines Fridays 1st May 2026
We’ve finally reached Friday! Welcome to this week's First Lines Friday. Ready to find out if this week's book can hook you just from the opening lines?
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I'm participating in First Lines Fridays as I think it's a great way to highlight more of the books that are on my bookshelves.
What is First Lines Fridays?
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
My Pick For This Week
The first lines of the book:
David burst into Old Man Cossack’s house, shoving the silly bastard backwards down the hall, kicking the door shut behind him. “Buying from Phil now, are you?” David asked. Another shove. He’d waited so long to do this, scaring all his former customers. Maybe too long, what with the rage siphoning all the goodness out of his blood, the goodness Mum said all Jamaicans were born with. Well, he was only half Jamaican, so that put paid to her silly sermons, didn’t it? The other half of him was pure wanker.
Do you know which book this is from? Scroll down to find out!
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And the book is...
Please note this book was previously published as The Woman on Mulberry Lane.
Detective Inspector Morgan Yeoman heads home with a pile of paperwork and a takeaway dinner. His front door is wide open. He finds his wife Lydia high on cocaine and there’s a dead woman in his living room. Her throat slit with one slash.
A dead body in a detective’s home. It’s not looking good for Yeoman.
He’s already got a lot on his plate. A young woman was found dead in the dirt in Queen’s Wood. Her naked body thrown into a ditch.
Yeoman’s willing to be bad to put away bad men. As long as the real criminals are caught.
He’s known for bending the rules, but is he about to go too far?
Detective Inspector Morgan Yeoman heads home with a pile of paperwork and a takeaway dinner. His front door is wide open. He finds his wife Lydia high on cocaine and there’s a dead woman in his living room. Her throat slit with one slash.
A dead body in a detective’s home. It’s not looking good for Yeoman.
He’s already got a lot on his plate. A young woman was found dead in the dirt in Queen’s Wood. Her naked body thrown into a ditch.
Yeoman’s willing to be bad to put away bad men. As long as the real criminals are caught.
He’s known for bending the rules, but is he about to go too far?
Where to find Dead in the Dirt by Emmy Ellis online:
Get the book: Dead in the Dirt Amazon affiliate link
Add it to your shelf: Dead in the Dirt on Goodreads
Add it to your shelf: Dead in the Dirt on Goodreads
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