Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events: First Chapter/Intros, now hosted by Socrates Book Reviews; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by The Purple Booker.
Today’s feature is another new book: Let Her Lie, by Bryan Reardon.
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Intro: (Chapter One, June 5, 2017)
When I was a kid, I used to pray for snow. All winter I would watch the weather. Every chance, no matter how small, filled me with hope. That a storm would hit. And we would get to stay home.
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Teaser:
Late that night, Jasper moved along the empty beach. The surf ran up the sand to his left, hissing to a stop a few feet from his path before retreating once again. (p. 61).
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Synopsis: Theo Snyder is at the end of his rope. One minute he was on top of the world, his documentary film The Basement a massive critical and commercial hit, the next crestfallen when his latest film was canceled after an embarrassingly public misstep. As his desperation grows, he makes a bold decision: to pursue the story of the notorious “Halo Killer,” Jasper Ross-Johnson. But delving into the life and mind of a serial killer could prove more deadly than Theo ever could have imagined.
At first, things are looking up. Jasper is willing to talk, the footage of the jailhouse meetings is spectacular, and famed investigator Zora Neale Monroe joins him on the project. Theo is sure he’s getting close to something no one else has discovered: the truth about why Jasper was captured before he could kill his final victim. Someone else was on the beach that day, someone who knows a lot more than they’re telling and just might know how it all happened. The truth could lead to more killing–unless Theo can uncover the real ending to the story of the Halo Killer first.
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Would you keep reading?
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