Every Friday Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader where you can share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
Ruling Passion by Reginald Hill is one of the books I’m reading at the moment. It’s one of my TBRs, the third Dalziel and Pascoe book in which Pascoe finds his social life and work uncomfortably brought together by a terrible triple murder. Meanwhile, Dalziel is pressuring him about a string of unsolved burglaries, and as events unfold the two cases keep getting jumbled in his mind.
Brookside Cottage,Thornton Lacey. September 4th.
Well hello, Peter Pascoe!
A voice from the grave! Or should I say the underworld? Out of which Ellie (who gave me the glad news of your existence when we met in town last month) hopes to lead you, for a while at least, back into the land of the living.
As soon as I finished reading the 2nd book in the series, An Advancement of Learning, I just had to start the third. I’ve read some of the later books but not the early ones, so I’m keen to know more about Dalziel and Pascoe. In An Advancement of Learning Pascoe and Ellie (his wife in the later books) had just renewed the relationship they’d had at university and so I’m pleased to see in the opening chapters of this book that they are together. In this first chapter a friend from their university days has invited them to stay for a weekend in the country.
Also every Friday there is The Friday 56, hosted by Freda at Freda’s Voice.
These are the rules:
- Grab a book, any book.
- Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
- Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you.
- Post it.
- Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda’s most recent Friday 56 post.
Page 56:
‘We got on very well from the start. I’d only known her and Colin a couple of months, but we soon got on friendly terms. That’s why it came as such a shock … I still can’t believe it.’
The weekend in the country has turned into a nightmare!
Have read this book? What did you think about it? And if you haven’t, would you keep on reading?
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Oh, I really hope you’ll like this one, Margaret. I think this series got better as it went on, and I do like its story arcs. Hill knew how to weave a mystery plot, too, in my opinion.
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I’ve never read these, but I do like the sound of the series now you’ve brought them to my attention.
Here’s my Friday Post. Happy Friday!
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I’ve only read one book in this series – On Beulah Height. Loved it, but just never went back and read the rest of the series. I have so many like that. Sigh. One day?
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I love it when a series is so good you have to read the books one after the other.
Ruling Passion certainly sounds interesting.
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I love how it is set in the same month we’re in… 🙂 It’s the little things. Happy weekend!
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I am so glad that my life isn’t just one long mystery novel. It does sound like a nightmare. My Friday Quotes
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I can’t help but think it’s turned into a nightmare too! I haven’t read any part of this series before, but it sounds great. I hope you enjoy this one! Have a great weekend, Margaret.
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Yes, I’d keep reading! Hope you enjoy it – I think it’s the first one in which Peter and Ellie begin to feel like the characters they develop into in the later books.
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I like the quotes. I haven’t read anything by Reginald Hill, but Ruling Passion sounds interesting.
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