Some authors like to gently lead their readers into the story, while others prefer to grab you by the lapels from the first word. Here are some thumping first-liners from our newest novels:
"It's hard to know how to feel when your best friend blows out a man's stomach with a shotgun" - In the Light of You by Nathan Singer.
"His name was Paul Lewis and he didn't know he had seven minutes to live" - Severance Package by Duane Swierczynski.
"Hans Walther Kleinman, one of the great theoretical physicists of our time, was drowning in his bathtub" - Final Theory by Mark Alpert.
"Dag was riding up the lane thinking only of the chances of a Bluefield farm lunch, and his likelihood of needing a nap afterwards, when the arrow hissed past his face" - The Sharing Knife: passage by Lois McMaster Bujold.
"A scrap of yellow crime scene tape bobbed in the rising tide of Boston Harbor where the brutalized body of Deirdre McCarthy had washed ashore" - The Angel by Carla Neggers.
"Hope seemed an odd emotion for a man about to be executed, but that was the only name Cayal could give the thrill welling up inside him as they led him up the steps of the platform" - The Immortal Prince: the Tide Lords book one by Jennifer Fallon.
So before you crack the binding on some of these fast-paced novels, take a deep breath, because there's no time for dawdling.
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