First Lines Fridays 20th December 2024 | Jo Linsdell

First Lines Fridays 20th December 2024

 

First Lines Fridays


Books: First Lines Fridays 20th December 2024


This week's pick is a Christmas cosy mystery. Get ready to judge the book based purely on it's 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:


“So, Courtney, is it?” I asked with what I hoped was a comforting and nonthreatening smile. I set the mug holding my newest tea blend I’d created for the Christmas season—a variety of fresh mint and a couple of other secret ingredients—down on the kitchen table. I called it “Candy Cane Concoctions”, and hoped others would find it as soothing as it was refreshing. “What can I do for you?”


Do you know which book this is from? Scroll down to find out!


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And the book is...


The Murder Before Christmas by Michele Pariza Wacek book cover

About the book

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09H22K7LJ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Love-Based Publishing 
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 9, 2021
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 190 pages

Book synopsis for The Murder Before Christmas by Michele Pariza Wacek

If you've got a problem, Charlie Kingsley probably has a tea that’ll help make it right.

EXCEPT when it comes to love. She does NOT do love potions.

Not even for Courtney, her pregnant new client who showed up three weeks before Christmas seeking a love potion because her husband was cheating on her.

So, Courtney asked about poison, instead.

She said she was joking. That's what happens between wives and husbands. They get angry and talk about killing each other. They don't really mean it.

It seems to make sense ... until Courtney’s husband turns up dead on Christmas Eve.

He was poisoned, of course.

And who is the number one suspect? Courtney. Of course.

But did she actually do it? Or is she being set up?

It's up to Charlie to sort through all the twists and turns in a case that gets more complicated the deeper she digs.

Meet Charlie. Better known as “Aunt Charlie” from the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. She's back, making teas and solving cases in this funny, twisty, cozy mystery series set in the 1990s in Redemption, Wisconsin.

While each book is a standalone, you may find it more enjoyable to read the books in order, which is:

The Murder Before Christmas
Ice Cold Murder
Murder Next Door
Murder Among Friends
The Murder of Sleepy Hollow
Red Hot Murder
A Cornucopia of Murder

Other books in the Charlie Kingsley Mystery series include:
A Grave Error (prequel)
Loch Ness Murder
A Wedding to Murder For

Buy now



Where to find The Murder Before Christmas by Michele Pariza Wacek online: 

 



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