First Lines Fridays: 24th January 2025 | Jo Linsdell

First Lines Fridays: 24th January 2025

    

First Lines Fridays


Books: First Lines Fridays 24th January 2025

Welcome to another First Lines Friday! Are you ready to judge this week's 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:


Philip Levine was one of the most sought-after guides at the MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. After many years at the job, he had both expertise and a vast command of the working mechanisms of one of the most influential and prestigious museums of contemporary art in the world. In time, he had accumulated interesting stories regarding every intricate detail of each of the works exhibited at the museum as well knowing their exact location.


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


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And the book is...


Murder on Canvas by Aaron Ben Shahar book cover



About the book


  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DDL44S25
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 27, 2024
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 233 pages
  • Book 1 of 3: International Thrillers & Mysteries

Book synopsis for Murder on Canvas by Aaron Ben Shahar

Greed. Obsession. Betrayal. And a masterpiece of a murder.

When a body is discovered at the New York Museum of Modern Art, lying directly beneath Van Gogh’s renowned Starry Night, the perplexing murder sends shockwaves through the art world. But when the murder victim turns out to be a famous international art restorer, the unanswered questions turn into a full-blown mystery.

Piece by piece, the late restorer’s life comes to light—including a secret kept hidden from the world’s most prestigious museums. Who, really, was the murder victim? Who would want him dead—and why? And which of the two identical pieces of Starry Night, half a world apart, is the authentic Van Gogh?

The baffling case stumps investigators, throwing the art industry into a frenzy of conspiracies involving a ring of infamous Russian art smugglers, an art-loving real estate tycoon, and a collection of replicas so perfectly true to their originals that not even experts can tell them apart.

Mystery meets conspiracy in this gripping international crime thriller, perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Daniel Silva, and Elly Griffiths.


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