Every Tuesday Vicki at I’d Rather Be At the Beach hosts First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros, where we share the first paragraph or two of a book we are reading or thinking about reading soon.
Mine comes from A Well-Timed Murder by Tracee de Hahn.
There was a crowd but none of them mattered. Agnes Lüthi had eyes for only one man, the one she’d nicknamed the Roach. The one she’d only dreamt of finding in Switzerland.
She moved quickly despite her injured leg, focused on her destination, closing her umbrella when she reached the high canopy. A chain of buses discharged passengers in front of the Messe Basel Exhibition Halles, and they flowed past her toward the doors as if the world’s premier watch and jewelry show might sell out of goods if they dallied. She had never before been to Baselworld, but from the look of the well-dressed crowd judged it was a fitting place to find this particular man.
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I think so too.
I think this is a good beginning. It sets up who she’s looking for with a little intrigue.
I do wonder why she calls him The Roach, whoever he is.
I like the first paragraph, I’d keep reading!
It was one of those that was hard to put down after I typed the intro.
That’s a great opening. The author gives the book’s location, the main character’s name, and tells readers her quest. I’d keep reading to find out why she’s stalking the Roach.
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I didn’t include the blurb, but we do know she’s a police officer, although supposedly on leave.
This definitely sounds like my kind of book. I want to read this one.
I think it should be good, and I like the watch and jewelry show setting.