Hour 8 Challenge

[Anna Catharina]

"Only in the very back of my mind, in the most secret dreams, did I ever dare hope I'd have such a moment." by Eva Gates

[Anne]

"Up until that dreadful day in February, Lady Rose Summer would have sworn on a stack of Bibles that she was not a jealous woman."

From "Our Lady of Pain" by M.C. Beaton

[Nell]

""My second mistake was dropping my lipstick."

From Guaranteed to Bleed by Julie Mulhern

[Nancy]

First line-" Half an hour before Diana Snyder died, she tidied up her desk in the typists' office of the Cabinet War Rom." from 'Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal.

[Debbie]

Come on. Do the right thing..... Again. Cracked to Death by Cheryl Hollon

[Shelley]

I wasn't sure if this book would be considered a cozy but it is listed on one of the cozy websites.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

[Anna Catharina]

@Anne and Ronnie: Very good! This first lines make me feel I have to read this books soon :)

[Elizabeth]

Kelly Flynn jerked awake. Was that her cell phone ringing?

[Rosemary]

It was a dream, one of those bizarre fantasies she'd laugh about when she woke up. But not even in her worst nightmare had Hannah Swensen ever imagined she'd be transformed into an elf.

Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke

[Anne]

Agatha Raisin was born in a tower block slum in Birmingham and christened Agatha Styles.

By M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
- Terrible Tourist
- There goes the Bride
- A spponfull of poison
- Witch of Wyckhadden

She seem to use that sentence very often. Never noticed it before..

[Anne]

@Shelley Rebecca?

[Kathleen]

"Resident islanders couldn't remember a hotter Key West summer. " in Killer taker out by Lucy Burdette.
I chose this once since the first line from By Book or By Crook has been posted a few times.

[Kathleen]

Great reference!

[Shelley]

@ Anne yes I have always loved that line. It's so haunting.

[Karen-Leigh]

If I'd ever had reason to consider the notion, I'd have been willing to bet that if I walked into a room that held a dead body, the body would have been the first thing I noticed. Leigh Perry's The Skeleton in the Home. That sentence didn't hook me but the next paragraph did when the author wrote The bookshelves had overflowed and slopped books onto the floor, ----that word slopped did it for me.

[Kathleen]

Looks lik emy previous post did not take.

"My mother-in-law gave me a box of chocolates that she made herself."
The Diva Steals a Chocolate Kiss by Krista Davis

[Jackie]

"Anytime or anyplace, a wedding will usually put a smile on a woman's face."

[Terri]

Be careful! "I said, looking up from the boxwood hedge I was pruning. " We don't want another trip to the emergency room. We've used up our family quota for the week."
Donna Andrews The Good, The Bad, and The Emus

[Kim]

Anna Catharina wrote: ""Only in the very back of my mind, in the most secret dreams, did I ever dare hope I'd have such a moment." by Eva Gates"

i'm listening to that one!

[wonderwomand]

"Charity Oliver jumped up from the plastic chair in the examining room and caught her cat."

Fat Cat At Large by Janet Cantrell

[jaxnsmom]

"The thing about friendships," Molly Matthews stated and then paused to take a sip of her iced tea, "is that they're as cozy as an old chenille bathrobe that you crawl into when you're feeling, or have a bug, or just want to feel good all over."

Cover Story by Erika Chase

[jaxnsmom]

I forget about the brownie points.

(view spoiler)[The Shining. Jack Nicholson was so creepy in the movie, but the book was still better. (hide spoiler)]