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…
“It was the third week of production and so far everything had gone as well as could be expected in the shooting of a film that was already thousands of pounds over budget, riven by creative differences and fast running out of time.”
Do you know this one?
It just came out this week…
It is the next book in a cozy mystery series…
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz
Summary from Goodreads:
The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is about to be made into a major feature film.
The actors have been cast, the script written, and filming has already started in Hastings.
But when Hawthorne and Anthony visit the set, they find a far from happy family.
The director’s pretentious, the screenwriter’s an eco-warrior, the two stars hate each other, and the producer has run out of money.
And things are about to get much, much worse.
In the middle of shooting, the actor playing Hawthorne is stabbed – which leaves the real Hawthorne with no choice. He has to step in and investigate his own murder.
Because the killer may not have got the right man. Was it Hawthorne himself who was meant to be the target?
This was such a fun book to read and a nice addition to the series. All of these books are excellent and I highly recommend them.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 