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
their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
• 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
My Teaser this week is from Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips
Blurb
In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a widow with three children, is lonely and pressed for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who ultimately promises to marry her and to care for her and her children. Asta agrees to go with him to West Virginia to see his house there, and then to bring her children. Weeks later, all are dead.
Emily Thornhill, a bold, independent journalist, one of the few women in the Chicago press, covers the case and becomes deeply invested in understanding what happens to this beautiful family – especially the highly imaginative youngest girl, Annabel – and determined to make sure that Powers is convicted. She also falls in love with the Chicago banker who funds the investigation, wracked by guilt himself for not saving Asta from her tragic end.
Quiet Dell is mesmerising, the retelling of a grisly crime at a moment in American history when women were powerless and vulnerable and newspapers were just beginning to make national stories of local crimes. It is a tour de force of obsession and imagination. NetGalley
My Teaser
They were out of the door, into the car, rolling down the windows and remarking on the plush seats. Grethe saw that Mr. Pierson, Cornelius, she must call him, was still in the house. Perhaps he had forgotten the note. But there he was on the porch and down the steps, and they were all clapping and cheering.
That’s an intriguing teaser! I used to do this meme but stopped after the AZ. Will begin again in May!
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This is where the children are leaving their home in the car with Mr Pierson… I’ll look forward to your TT’s again in May!
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Thank you for dropping by my teaser. Quiet Dell sounds interesting – I like the teaser.
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Thank you Sally 🙂 It is quite a good and quite a long read…
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Good teaser, wonder what the note was about and why they were cheering.
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I’m afraid if they’d known what was ahead I don’t think they’d have been cheering 😦
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Reading that and the blurb, it sounds interesting.
Here’s mine
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It is a fascinating read but quite horrific too…. Thank you for sharing your link with me 🙂
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It’s been a while since I have read a horror book 🙂
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The Teaser sounds so positive and excited, but then having read the blurb you just get so worried for the family! Thanks for sharing 🙂 I hope you have a good week! My Teasers
Juli @ Universe in Words
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This book is structured so you get to know the family first despite knowing that something awful is going to happen, it really builds the suspense brilliantly. Thank you for sharing your link 🙂
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Oh, wow, I want to know more! I have read this author, but it’s been awhile. I’m adding this one to my list. Thanks for visiting my blog.
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I haven’t read any of her previous books so she is a new to me author.
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Good teaser but this would not be a book for me. My TT
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Thanks for the visit 🙂
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Sounds like they’re off on an exciting adventure. I’ve read other books by this author and enjoyed them, so I’m sure I’ll like this one too.
My Teaser is from LOVING CHLOE.
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I don’t think it was all that they had hoped for…
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Interesting teaser! Happy reading!!
Here is my teaser post!
AND
Here is my Intro post!
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Interesting teaser!
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Hmm? I wonder why they are cheering… Here’s my teaer:
http://collettaskitchensink.blogspot.com/2014/04/teaser-tuesday-42214.html
Colletta
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I recently saw this book mentioned elsewhere and thought it sounded good. Mine: The Lost Symbol
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Thanks for visiting me.., I am enjoying this true crime transformed into fiction as it is quite different to anything I’ve read recently.
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It sounds really intriguing and that it is san actual crime that has been fictionalised…that makes it even more interesting….
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interesting teaser. sounds like a good book. thanks so much for stopping by today. kelley—the road goes ever ever on
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The beginning of that summary is crazy. I’m curious now. Thanks for the teaser.
Lauren from http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com
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Wow! This one sounds good….but also a bit sad. I’m adding it to my list. Thanks for sharing! And thanks for stopping by!
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