Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
This week my teaser is from a psychological suspense novel The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goodard Jones
Blurb
Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn’t have many friends. She finds more comfort playing make-believe in the woods near her house in Roma, Kentucky, than with her classmates, who find her strange and awkward. When she happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discovery—a choice that begins to haunt her.
Susanna Mitchell has always been a good girl, the dutiful daughter and wife. While her older sister Ronnie trolled bars for men and often drove home at sunrise, Susanna kept a neat house, a respectable job, a young daughter. But when Ronnie goes missing, and Susanna realizes that she’s the only person in Roma who truly cares about her sister’s fate, she starts to question her quiet life and its value.
The Next Time You See Me is the story of how one woman’s disappearance exposes the ambitions, prejudices, and anxieties of a small southern town and its residents, who are all connected, sometimes in unexpected ways. Emily; Susannah; Tony, a failed baseball star-turned-detective, aspiring to be the county’s first black sheriff; and Wyatt, a fifty-five-year-old factory worker tormented by a past he can’t change and by a love he doesn’t think he deserves. Their stories converge in a violent climax that reveals not just the mystery of what happened to Ronnie but all of their secret selves. Goodreads
My Teaser
Christopher’s presence at her side was so real to her that she registered embarrassment at the visibility of her exertion, and she couldn’t help calling up the look on his face when he had stopped by her desk that day at school: the disgust, so evident in the curl of his lip, and the spat word, creep, said as though he were ridding his mouth of a foul taste.
Then she fell, turning her ankle as she went and throwing up her left arm in time to shield her face from a jutting branch.
This sounds really good. It’s going on my TBR list!
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I have really loved this book, there is a certain surety about the writing that has had me totally convinced!
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I agree, sounds good! On to my TBR too.
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It is a great read, I can’t believe I hadn’t heard more about it even though it was published in February here.
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sounds good. Great teaser and synopsis
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Thanks Nish, this has proved to be one of those unexpected finds.
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Intriguing teaser and blurb.
Here’s mine
http://www.lovebitessilkties.co.uk/2014/03/teasertuesday-auctioned-to-protect-by.html
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Thank you Kay 🙂
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Sounds good!! Here is mine today:
http://mydogearedpurpose.com/2014/03/18/teaser-tuesday-march-18th/
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Thanks for sharing your teaser, it is from one of the books on my TBR! The Next Time You See me was a lovely surprise of a book, more about the hearts and minds of the characters than who did what!
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excellent teaser! you’ve got me intrigued…
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mine ? here: http://faithhopecherrytea.blogspot.ca/2014/03/teaser-tuesdays-books-18314.html
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Thank you for sharing your link. This book has been an excellent read!
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Love the description in your Teaser, especially “the disgust, so evident in the curl of his lip, and the spat word, creep.” I can see his face! Sounds like a good story.
My Teaser is from MILLSTONE.
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Indeed, this writer really captures every nuance, I have really enjoyed reading this book!
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Very intense and written with vivid descriptions…sounds good! Love that cover, too.
Here’s MY TUESDAY POST
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Thanks Laurel, the cover is lovely isn’t it? This is a character led book that’s for sure!
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What a teaser!! Happy reading!
Here is my teaser post
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Thank you although not as lyrical as your teaser this week!
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Ooh what a good teaser! Sounds like an interesting read.
Lauren from http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com
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I just can’t believe that I haven’t heard more about this well-written book.
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Let me know if it carries on being as good as this makes it seem 🙂
Here’s mine
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It’s finished and I enjoyed every page 🙂 Review will be posted later this week!
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Excellent 🙂 I look forward to that then. I have been away from TT for a few weeks. I have had no time for anything. Still don’t but squeezed this in
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It’s good to have you back, hope you find that pot of time soon 😉
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Me too. Problem is, the time thief steals an hour at the end of the month 😦
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Great teaser, sounds like a good suspense. Mine: Night Broken
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Thank you for sharing your link with me 🙂
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Intriguing teaser. I like it.
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This sounds like intense, serious business!
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