{First Line Friday & Friday 56}

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? If you want to make your own post, follow the rules below:

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page.
• 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!

If you're using Twitter, don't forget to use #FirstLinesFridays

It was the scratching noise that brought Poppy down to the place where she wasn't allowed to go. She wrinkled her nose as her bare feet touched the steps, wishing she could blot out the stinky smell. She did not want to think about the spider that had produced giant cobwebs hanging from the rafters.

READ ON TO FIND OUT WHAT BOOK THIS IS FROM.

Meet Amy Winter: Detective Inspector, daughter of a serial killer.

DI Amy Winter is hoping to follow in the footsteps of her highly respected police officer father. But when a letter arrives from the prison cell of Lillian Grimes, one half of a notorious husband-and-wife serial killer team, it contains a revelation that will tear her life apart.

Responsible for a string of heinous killings decades ago, Lillian is a pure evil. A psychopathic murderer. And Amy's biological mother. Now, she is ready to reveal the location of three of her victims — but only if Amy plays along with her twisted game.

While her fellow detectives frantically search for a young girl taken from her mother's doorstep, Amy must confront her own dark past. Haunted by blurred memories of a sister who sacrificed herself to save her, Amy faces a race against time to uncover the missing bodies.

But what if, from behind bars, Grimes has been pulling the strings even tighter than Amy thought? And can she overcome her demons to prevent another murder?

ADD TO | Goodreads

PRE-ORDER | Amazon

"The bad man, Daddy. The bad man is after us."

Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident...until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon.

Tormented by grief and her obsession that Nick's death was far more than just an accident, Clara is plunged into a desperate hunt for the truth. Who would have wanted Nick dead? And, more important, why? Clara will stop at night to find out—and the truth is only the beginning of this twisted tale of secrets and deceit.

Told in the alternating perspectives of Clara's investigation and Nick's last months leading up to the crash, master of suspense Mary Kubica weaves her most chilling thriller to date—one that explores the dark recesses of a mind plagued by grief and shows that some secrets might be better left buried.

ADD TO | Goodreads

ONE-CLICK | Amazon

eBook & Paperback cover:

Rules:

*Grab a book, any book.

*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader

*Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it)

*Post it.

*Leave your link over at Freda's Voice.