From Tom Sullivan’s Alive Day
“The dog stilled in his morning walk, watching as a seagull soared overhead.”
“Owen wanted to scream at the horror before him.”
From James Riley's Story Thieves
“My face is mashed sideways against the trunk of a police cruiser when Kate dies for the third time.”
From Justin A. Reynolds' Opposite of Always
“Artemis Fowl was almost content.”
From Eion Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
“It was a perfectly normal school morning in the Campbell household–disorganized, chaotic and at least one of my children was running around half-naked–right up until the moment the police arrived at our front door to question me in connection with the death of Howard Grant.”
From Margot Hunt's Best Friends Forever
First Sentence of a New World 