Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, from Tuesday/First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Vicky from I’d Rather Be At The Beach who posts the opening paragraph (sometime two) of a book she decided to read based on the opening. Feel free to grab the banner and play along.
Well my reading pace has picked up in 2019 and I’m delighted to share the opening from a book I plan to read very soon indeed; The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths is the eleventh episode in the Dr Ruth Galloway series which is due to be published on 7 February 2019.
Blurb
DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to ‘go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there’. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle’s baby due to be born, but because although the letters are anonymous, they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that first drew him into the case of The Crossing Places, and to Ruth. But the author of those letters is dead. Or are they?
Meanwhile Ruth is working on a dig in the Saltmarsh – another henge, known by the archaeologists as the stone circle – trying not to think about the baby. Then bones are found on the site, and identified as those of Margaret Lacey, a twelve-year-old girl who disappeared thirty years ago.
As the Margaret Lacey case progresses, more and more aspects of it begin to hark back to that first case of The Crossing Places, and to Scarlett Henderson, the girl Nelson couldn’t save. The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly. Amazon
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First Chapter ~ First Paragraph ~ Intro
CHAPTER 1
12 February 2016
DCI Nelson,
Well, here we are again. Truly our end is our beginning. That corpse you buried in your garden, has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? You must have wondered whether I, too was buried deep in the earth. Oh ye of little faith. You must have known that I would rise again.
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This is actually one of my favourite of all the series that I follow and I am seriously excited to be meeting up with Nelson and Ruth again especially as the start of this letter is weird. What corpse is in Nelson’s garden?
What do you think? Would you keep reading?
Is it wrong I find that start a little comic? (I know it is-what is wrong with me!!!) Great post and would totally read!!
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haha 🤣
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That is a great opening as it raises so many questions in the reader’s mind. There’s something chilling about it because the writer seems disturbed, to say the least, and seems to have an unsettling degree of knowledge about Nelson.
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Indeed, I can’t wait to find out what it all means.
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Very exciting opener indeed! I would definitely keep reading but I need to catch up on the rest of this series first. I’ve only read 4!
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You best get reading then Eva 😉
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Yes! Not least as I’ll be hosting Elly at our literary festival in May!
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Oh I am jealous! 😉
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This is an excellent series, isn’t it, Cleo? And those letters are such an intriguing way to start a book! I’m definitely interested, and I hope you’re really enjoying this one. Griffiths is so talented!
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It is a brilliant series and I’m so looking forward to finding out who is writing to Nelson!
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That intro made me smile, I’m curious and would read more.
Here’s my pick:http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com/2019/01/first-chapter-first-paragraph-tuesday_15.html
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Thanks for visiting Diane and leaving your link.
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I like the opening and love the cover. I hope you enjoy the book. See what I’m featuring at Girl Who Reads
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Thanks for visiting Donna and leaving your link.
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It’s an excellent opening, and sounds like a really good read. Hope you are enjoying it!
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Thank you Denise – I’m so looking forward to getting stuck into this one.
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Love this series but I’m sadly very behind and have a lot of catching up to do… This one sounds great. 👍😍📚
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I’m so looking forward to finding out more – hopefully you’ll catch up at some stage…
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Ah yes…I know the answer. I got an advance copy of this book late last year and I couldn’t wait. Read it already. I love this series. Enjoy, Cleo! Some ‘blasts from the past’ in this one. Just saying…
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Ooh thank you for confirming what I had heard whispers of Kay!
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Great opening! I’d keep reading! Sadly this is a series I have not read and it looks like there is a lot of catching up to do. Enjoy!!
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Yes by the time we get into double figures I appreciate it can seem a little daunting to start a series!
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I do love this series, but have only read the first two books. I need to get going on more of them, and right away. Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.
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I’m sure you’ll get there at some point Laurel 🙂
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I’ve got my eye on reading this one too.I’d not want to see a corpse sprouting, let alone blooming 🙂
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No me neither Margaret!
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That first paragraph is quite taunting. I feel like I’d better read on or else!. Enjoy Cleo.
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Indeed! Thank you Margot
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Oh yes, I love the sound of this and the way he’s talking about that corpse buried in the garden!
Here is my Tuesday post! Happy Tuesday, hope you’re having a good one!
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Thank you 🙂
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This series has been on my want to read list for awhile now!
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I’d push it up the list a bit 😉
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Oh keep reading for sure – a great opening.
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Michelle is having a baby??? Good grief, Ruth won’t be pleased about that… is it Nelson’s? See, this is what happens when you give up on a series… 😉
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Haha you’ve missed a lot already!!
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Well the opening sure is a great hook. I hope this one is another winner for you in the series.
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Winner opening here! I’d definitely keep on reading!
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Great cover. Sounds like a good one.
sherry @ fundinmental
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I’d keep reading to find out what’s going on!
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