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!
Got it? Okay let’s go! Here is the quote…
“That summer I hunted the serial killer at night from my daughter’s playroom.”
Do you know this one?
That line does sound chilling!
I hope to start this one soon.
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
I’ll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.
Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called “the Golden State Killer.” Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was.
I never thought I would use the first line from a nonfiction book, but that one just gets to you doesn’t it? I hope to be starting this one soon and I look forward to learning more about Michelle and her hunt for this killer.
Confessions of a Serial Reader 