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Tuesday Teaser – And Then You Die

Published on August 11, 2009 by Margaret12 Comments

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) ‘teaser’ sentences from that page.

I haven’t started to read And Then You Die by Michael Dibdin yet and actually it’s one that my husband has borrowed from the library, but it looks interesting and the first two sentences caught my attention:

Aurelio Zen was dead to the world. Under the next umbrella, a few desirable metres closer to the sea, Massimo Rutelli was just dead.

I think I’ll read it when he’s finished it.

Teaser Tuesday – Coastliners

Published on August 4, 2009 by Margaret14 Comments

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Share a couple or more sentences from the book you’re currently reading. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your ‘teaser’ from €¦ that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

And please avoid spoilers!

I’ve started to read Coastliners by Joanne Harris, a novel about life on the tiny Breton island of Le Devin. After the death of her mother Mado has returned to the island to her father’s house. It has been ten years since she lived there and she finds her home threatened both by the tides and a local entrepreneur. Her father is not welcoming. She finds the house looking derelict and deserted. On entering she sees a photograph of her father, GrosJean, her sister Adrienne and herself:

My face had been cut out of the picture – clumsily with scissors – so that only GrosJean and Adrienne remained, she with her arm resting lightly on his. My father was smiling at her over the space where I had been.

Tuesday Teaser – Tooth and Nail

Published on July 21, 2009 by Margaret10 Comments

It‘s Tuesday again. Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

And please avoid spoilers!

Today’s teaser is from Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin, which I’ve just started to read. Rebus is on his way to London to investigate four murders that had happened in the space of three months:

He was a busy little man this killer they had named the Wolfman and then they had sent word to Rebus’s boss. Lend us your man, they had said. Let’s see what he can do. (page 396 in the omnibus Rebus the Early Years)

Teaser Tuesday – Hide and Seek

Published on July 7, 2009 by Margaret16 Comments

It’s Tuesday again. Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

And please avoid spoilers!

Today I’m starting to read Hide & Seek by Ian Rankin and my teaser is from the opening paragraph. It’s from page 187 of the anthology of the first three Rebus books:

He was shrieking now, frantic, his face drained of all colour. She was at the top of the stairs, and he stumbled towards her, grabbing her by the arms, propelling her downstairs, with unfocucced force, so that she feared they would both fall.

Teaser Tuesday from The Gardens of the Dead

Published on June 30, 2009 by Margaret17 Comments

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading:

And please avoid spoilers!

My teaser today is from page xii of The Gardens of the Dead by William Brodrick:

She would never behold Charles, her husband again … he was at Smithfield Market, fretting over the morrow; or Nicholas, her unwary son … he was probably on the Barrier Reef, among the brightly coloured fish; or George, her friend and accomplice, who was waiting beneath a fire escape. And yes, in terms of these grand designs of hers, death had come too soon. It was, as ever, the spoiler.

William Brodrick was an Augustinian friar before leaving the order to become a practising barrister. The Gardens of the Dead is his second novel featuring Father Anselm, the barrister turned monk.

Teaser Tuesdays – Company of Liars

Published on June 23, 2009 by Margaret7 Comments

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Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

And please avoid spoilers!

Another teaser from Company of Liars by Karen Maitland:

It was not easy dancing in the graveyard. The dancers tripped over humps and banged into wooden crosses and stone markers, but by now everyone was so merry on the free ale, cider and mead that they roared with laughter each time someone fell over. (page 79)