Posts from the ‘Mystery’ Category

First Chapter First Paragraph — The 7th Woman

first paragraphEvery Tuesday,
Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea posts the first paragraph of her current read.
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I will share here the first paragraph of a book
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The 7th woman

ISBN-13: 978-0-9853206-6-9
Published   by Le French Book, Inc.
First published in French in 2007

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It felt like lightning had struck him. He couldn’t breathe. His mouth was dry, and his throat tight. He was free-falling. She was wildly attractive: about thirty-five, five and half feet tall, slender, with short auburn hair and brown eyes highlighted by plain eyeglasses. Her voice was soft and steady. She had a keen, friendly and reassuring look in her eyes, and a smile illuminated her face -a magnificent smile. He stared at her intensely, like a pimply teenager entranced by a Playboy cover girl.

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First Chapter First Paragraph — Treachery in Bordeaux

first paragraphEvery Tuesday,
Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea posts the first paragraph of her current read.
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I will share here the first paragraph of a book
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Treachery in Bordeaux
140 pages,

ISBN-13: 978-1939474025
Published  on October 9, 2012, by Le French Book, Inc.
First published in French (Fayard, 2004)

Buying links:

For your Amazon Kindle
For your Barnes & Noble Nook
For your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
For your Kobo

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The morning was cool and radiant. A west wind had swept the clouds far inland to the gentle hills beyond the city of Bordeaux. Benjamin Cooker gave two whistles, one short, the other drawn out, and Bacchus appeared from the high grass in the riverbank. He had that impertinent look that Irish setters get when you remind them that they are dogs. Cooker liked this clever and deceptively disciplined attitude. He would never roam his childhood landscapes with an animal that was too docile. The Médoc was still wild, despite its well-ordered garden veneer, and it would always be that way. In the distance, a few low wisps of fog were finishing their lazy dance along the Gironde estuary. it was nearly eleven and time to go home..

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FRIDAY 56

Friday 56Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
*Find any sentence, (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you.
*Post it.
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I will post for this meme a passage from a book
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Summer of FranceClick on the book cover to know more about the book

“The trips around the country without spouses in tow continued. Jeanne-Marie and Grayson dropped the teenagers in Aix with enough money for lunch or ice cream before setting off to explore the cliff villages or to Grasse for the parfumerie or to Monaco to try their luck at the casinos.
When I had time, usually in the evenings after Chantal had left, I wondered what happened to my family. What happened to my plans to gather everyone close, to share the beauty of a new country together?”
Nook screen 56

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