Tuesday, August 7, 2012

First Chapter First Paragraph - Scrapbook of Secrets

Title: Scrapbook of Secrets
Author: Mollie Cox Bryan
Publisher: Kensington (February 1, 2012)
Format: eBook; Pgs 304
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Source: Library
Series: Cumberland Creek #1




Hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea






Chapter 1

For Vera, all of the day’s madness began when she saw the knife handle poking out of her mother’s neck. Her mother didn’t seem to know it. In fact, she was surprised that the blade was inside her. “How did that happen?” she demanded to know from her daughter.

Vera just looked at her . . . calmly. “Well, now, Mother, we need to call someone, an ambulance . . . a doctor. . . . I don’t know. Should we pull it out, or what?”

Overview

Having traded in her career as a successful investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home mum in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia, Annie can't help but feel that something's missing. But she finds solace in a local "crop circle" of scrapbookers united by chore-shy husbands, demanding children, and occasional fantasies of their former single lives. And when the quiet idyll of their small town is shattered by a young mother's suicide, they band together to find out what went wrong...Annie resurrects her reporting skills and discovers that Maggie Rae was a closet scrapbooker who left behind more than a few secrets - and perhaps a few enemies. As they sift through Maggie Rae's mysteriously discarded scrapbooks, Annie and her "crop" sisters begin to suspect that her suicide may have been murder. It seems that something sinister is lurking beneath the town's beguilingly calm facade - like a killer with unfinished business...

4 comments:

Tea said...

Did someone throw the knife from a distance or was it a close plunge in the neck? I wouldn't pull it out. Wait until the police come. But if she's in pain...I would like to read this one.

stepfordmomto2@yahoo.com said...

That is all part of the storyline, so I can not reveal too much.

(Diane) Bibliophile By the Sea said...

Seems really silly to me?? don't think I'd go any further. Hope I'm wrong and you like it.

stepfordmomto2@yahoo.com said...

You are not wrong. It is one of the worst books that I have read this year.

I will be posting my review in a couple of days.