First Lines Fridays 16th January 2025 | Jo Linsdell

First Lines Fridays 16th January 2025

  

First Lines Fridays


Books: First Lines Fridays 16th January 2025

It’s First Lines Friday—and today the challenge is simple: no cover, no blurb, no title. Just the first few lines. Will they hook you? 

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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:


The Ember Lounge was loud and dark, which made it perfect. He sat at the far end of the bar in a gray shirt and jeans. The sort of guy you’d forget two seconds after looking at him. That was the point. For three weeks, he’d been coming here. Same time. Same stool. Watching. He knew the layout now. Where the exits were. When the bartenders took their smoke breaks. Which corners the security cameras missed. Strobe lights cut through the haze overhead—white and red, on a loop. Fog machines hissed in the corners like busted pipes. No one paid attention. No one wanted to. Tonight, she came in. Marcy.


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


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And the book is...


Secrets From A Serial Killer by J.C. Moore book cover


About the book


Book synopsis for Secrets From A Serial Killer by J.C. Moore

Two women dead. A third gone without a trace. And the clock is ticking.

Chief of Police Shauna Peterson thought she knew her small town. But when a third young woman vanishes—and the latest body turns up, stitched with red thread—everything changes.

The killer is methodical. Bold. Watching. And he's only just begun.

Now Shauna is in a race against time to stop a predator closing in on everything she loves. The state wants her sidelined. The town wants someone to blame.

And her daughter Emma? She’s hiding secrets—and getting dangerously close to the truth.

The killer wants Shauna’s attention.
And he knows exactly how to get it.


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Where to find Secrets From A Serial Killer by J.C. Moore online: 

 



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