Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Lagniappe: First Lines

Via Mystery Scene magazine, comes these first lines that make me want to read the book (and, yes, I put them in my quote journal).
The Rhythm Bar was a brick barnacle clinging to the underbelly of Hell's Kitchen on Manhattan's West Side. You wouldn't want to be caught dead there, although a lot of people had been.
Charles Kipps, Hell's Kitchen Homicide

2 brave one(s) among us:

Tante Léonie said...

I love this!

Pretentious Wombat said...

Yes. I do believe I'll write this one down, too. :-)

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