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…
“Considering how badly I needed a place to stay, my uncle couldn’t have died at a better time. One day I was in Dallas selling weed to minor league baseball players and sleeping in a garage. I had no car, no health insurance, my bank account was in the red, and my supply of antidepressants was running dangerously low. A few weeks later I was in Austin, still broke but somehow also worth a million dollars, drifting on a daddy’s boat in the middle of a lake with blood on my hands, a dead model in my lap, and a bomb in my backpack with ten seconds left on its timer. Nine, Eight, Seven.
As a wise man once said: All’s fair in love and real estate.
Do you know this one?
This is more like a first paragraph….
But the whole thing was just too good not to share…
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
Killer Vibes by Jack Friday
Summary from Goodreads:
Meet Peter Key: self-proclaimed “laziest private investigator in Texas” (it’s harder than it looks), full-time bisexual, dedicated stoner, and the surprised recipient of a windfall inheritance from an uncle he barely knew. Peter’s life was a mess before he became the owner of a dilapidated house in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Austin, but now he has a mountain of debt to deal with—and pushy realtors popping up on every corner to convince him to sell the land while the market is hot.
But Peter doesn’t like to be pushed around. And when he discovers a bag full of cash and a suggestion that his uncle’s death might not have been an accident, he starts asking questions. When they said “Keep Austin Weird,” they weren’t joking. Just about everyone Peter meets seems to have a hidden agenda, and he soon finds himself pulled into a lethal game where not everybody plays by the rules. Fortunately for Peter, he’s never been a rule follower anyway.
Sexy, suspenseful, and packed with Austin’s quirks, Killer Vibes is the start of an iconic new series with a singular, unforgettable cast of characters.
Check out my review here, Killer Vibes.
I really enjoyed this debut and I am really looking forward to the next one.
What do you think? Have you heard about this book? Is it on your TBR? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 