First Lines Fridays 4th July 2025 | Jo Linsdell

First Lines Fridays 4th July 2025

        

First Lines Fridays


Books: First Lines Fridays 4th July 2025

Welcome to First Lines Fridays

Each week, I'm spotlighting the first lines of a book—no title, no author—just a single hook to spark your curiosity. It’s a chance to discover new reads based purely on the opening words. Will it be a book you’ve read before or one that will surprise you? Scroll down to find out!

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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:


There’s a blood moon the night murder finds its way to the tiny Maine town of Coyote Cove. A rosy glow outlines the lifeless face as I roll up in my Jeep, lights off. A few of the early fall leaves shake loose from the trees, dancing across the narrow gravel road.


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


First Lines Fridays


And the book is...

The Girl Who Lied by Shannon Hollinger book cover


About the book

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BZZHKKQG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bookouture
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 2, 2023
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 286 pages

Book synopsis for The Girl Who Lied by Shannon Hollinger 

When Chief Maggie Riley finds a body one stormy night, she’s convinced a terrified teenage girl she glimpses at the scene must know something… but can the girl be trusted?

Maggie, once a big-city detective, lost everything when her little brother went missing. Heartbroken, she’s never stopped searching for him, even if that's left her with no option other than to become the underpaid police chief of Coyote Cove, a tiny, run-down logging town in a remote corner of the Maine woods.

But when Maggie discovers a murdered man discarded on the side of the road one dark, wild night, she is plunged back into the investigative world she’d left behind. And when 
Heather—a recent high-school dropout—emerges shivering from the dense forest nearby, Maggie is certain the girl is hiding something. But why won’t Heather talk?

With everyone, even her own deputy, working against her, it seems no one’s willing to tell Maggie the truth. Then a terrifying kidnapping turns everything Maggie thought she knew about the case on its head. Desperate to atone for the past, 
Maggie would do everything to save another innocent life. But will it be enough? Or will the most twisted killer she’s ever encountered remain one step ahead of her, for good…?

A totally addictive crime thriller packed with suspense. If you love Lisa Regan, Louise Penny and Melinda Leigh, you’ll love The Girl Who Lied.



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Where to find The Girl Who Lied by Shannon Hollinger  online: 

 



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