Happy Friday and happy new year! Welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. I’m heading back to the late 1920s this week with a historical romance that has a heaped side-serving of suspense. If you enjoy reading books in this time period, I encourage you to check out Rachel Scott McDaniel’s newest release, The Red Canary.
About the Book
In 1928, soot from the local mills and music from speakeasies linger in the Pittsburgh air. When the manager of The Kelly Club is found dead, nightclub singer Vera Pembroke is thrust into peril. As the only witness to the crime, she’s sentenced to hide away in the Allegheny Forest with a stuffy police sergeant as her guardian.
Sergeant Mick Dinelo harbors a burning hatred for Pittsburgh’s underworld after the devastation it left on his life—and heart. He should be out exposing culpable gangsters rather than tending to the impetuous woman who defies his every effort to keep her safe.
Mick and Vera must set aside their differences to solve the murder that someone wants to keep buried beneath the soot of Steel City.
First Line
I’d love it if you’d share the first line of whatever you’re currently reading in the comments. And don’t forget, you can find out what other bloggers are sharing for First Line Friday by going over to Hoarding Books blog and finding all the links. If you’ve got your own blog, why not join in and add your link over there. 🙂
I live not too far from Pittsburgh so this sounds especially interesting! I hope you can stop by:
https://collettaskitchensink.blogspot.com/2021/01/my-weekly-bookishness-112021.html
Colletta
Thank you SO much for featuring The Red Canary! This totally made my day❤️
Happy New Year!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Over on my blog, I’m sharing the first line from The Thief of Blackfriars Lane by Michelle Griep:
https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2021/01/01/first-line-friday-168/. It’s a great story! Currently, I’m reading The Twelve Holidates by Emma St. Clair, so I’ll share from there:
“I have to wonder if the blogger who suggested waiting inside a giant stocking for your significant other actually tried it first.”
Hope you have a wonderful weekend full of fun reading time! 🙂❤📚
Red Canary was a fantastic book!
My first line comes from Tidewater Bride by Laura Frantz
James Towne, Virginia Colony. Spring 1634
Alas, she was not a tobacco bride but she had been given charge of them.
Happy New Year!
The first line I shared this week is from The Dress Shop on King Street by Ashley Clark. I’m currently reading it too so I’ll share the first line from my current chapter (33) here: “The air was thick with humidity and the smells of birth as Millie came in and out of consciousness.” This book is amazing so far and is not very easy to put down at all. I have a pretty good feeling it’ll get finished tonight. Hope you have a wonderful weekend and happy reading!