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!

My first lines comes from a book I will be starting later today:

“Oh, Randy, that’s delicious,” Hayley moaned as she sipped from a mug while perched a top her usual stool at her brother’s bar, Drinks Like A Fish.

This is one story contained in a trilogy

It is the first line in a cozy mystery series

It’s a holiday themed anthology and story for St. Patrick’s Day

First Line Friday book is……

Irish Coffee Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, Barbara Ross

January 31, 2023 by Kensington Cozies

You don’t need to be Irish to enjoy St. Patrick’s Day in Maine, where the chilly March weather offers the perfect excuse to curl up with an Irish coffee. But someone may have spiked this year’s brew with
murder . . .

IRISH COFFEE MURDER by LESLIE MEIER
Part-time reporter Lucy Stone is writing a piece for the Courier about four Irish step dancing students from Tinker’s Cove on the cusp of making it big. But the story becomes headline news for all the wrong reasons when one girl’s mother is found dead in her bathtub. Did a stage mom take rivalry too far, or is some other motive at play?

DEATH OF AN IRISH COFFEE DRINKER by LEE HOLLIS
As owner of Bar Harbor’s hottest new restaurant, Hayley Powell offers to cater the after-party for popular comedian Jefferson O’Keefe, who’s playing his old hometown for St. Patrick’s Day. But it’s no laughing matter when Jefferson keels over after gulping down his post-show Irish coffee, leaving Hayley to figure out who decided this joker had gone too far . . .

PERKED UP by BARBARA ROSS
It’s a snowy St. Patrick’s Day in Busman’s Harbor. But when the power goes out, what better way for Julia Snowden to spend the evening than sharing local ghost stories–and Irish coffees–with friends and family? By the time the lights come back, they might even have solved the coldest case in town . . .

This first line comes from the story, Death of an Irish Coffee Drinker by Lee Hollis. I thought this was a perfect book to read today.

Does this book sound like one you would be interested in?

What are you reading now? Do you have an interesting first line to share?

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