From Fredrik Backman's Anxious People
“A bank robbery.”
“My wife, Megan, wrote an e-vite to our dinner party that was like Megan herself: funny, sharp, and a touch mysterious.”
From James Patterson and Richard DiLallo's The Store
“Thank you, Lord, for letting me see a purpose for my life.”
From Camille Regholec's The Secret Way to the Heart
“Danny Malooley was four years old when he learned the hard way that lemon-scented soap tasted nothing like lemons and everything like soap.”
From James Gould-Bourn's Bear Necessity
“Linnet Ridgeway!”
From Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile
“She’s sitting at the bus stop checking the likes on her Instagram feed and doesn’t even notice the man with the gun until he’s almost next to her.”
From Adrian McKinty's The Chain
“Elsa Anders knew she would remember everything of this moment, even as an old and bent woman.”
From Lisa Tawn Bergren's The Northern Lights: The Captain's Bride
“It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”
From Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders
“Deputy Keith Clayton hadn’t heard them approach, and up close, he didn’t like the looks of them anymore than he had the first time he’d seen them.”
From Nicholas Sparks' The Lucky One
“Twenty-five years ago, I killed my mother.”
From Sarah Zettel's The Other Sister
“MacGyver caught the silver tab between his teeth and slid the zipper free.”
From Melinda Metz's The Secret Life of Mac
“By midnight the snowfall would reach a foot, just shy of breaking Aspen’s one-day record set more than forty years before.”
From Trish Harnetiaux's White Elephant
“Forks.”
From Fredrik Backman's Britt-Marie Was Here
“Though it was the end of summer, the heat still waited outside front doors along with morning newspaper, both boding ill.”
From Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's The Liar
“Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September–a Thursday.”
From Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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