Kittling: Books

  First Line: One night in September 2018, I dreamed that I was standing in a courtroom, blinking in the bright lights, with microphones pok...

  First Line: It was the same dream .   After their parents' deaths in a tragic accident years ago, siblings Cory and Crystal Pratt live...

  First Line: The guest stirred the stew of fish, crab, salted pork, okra, and herbs with a silver spoon, pushing the polenta off to the sid...

  First Line from Prologue: The scientist had forgotten all about the radium .   During the years of World War I, one element was the Be All...

  First Line: If she screamed, she sealed her fate .   1860. Manteno, Illinois. The more Theophilus Packard's wife's religious views...

  First Line: Every murderer creates his own story .   The banks of the Calumet River yield a grisly find: the body of a man posed next to a...

First Line: Rose was always there, even while I was being born .   For twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her family, the happy, prosperous world t...

  First Line: I spent the bulk of the call with my eyes shut, thinking I was still asleep and in some kind of lucid dream .   "The Find...

First Line: Christine Dack was hung over . Mason "Mace" Reid lives on the outskirts of Chicago and trains dogs in human remains de...

First Line: The breezes of Macomb County usually journeyed from the west, blowing past and moving quickly onward, for the county was just...

First Line: Dear Madam, I hope you won't think me forward, but I wanted to write to express my admiration for your book, From an Eag...

First Line: Vivian's scream was a thing of beauty-- startling and pitch-perfect, as usual . It's October 1938, and radio is kin...

First Line: My heart wasn't just pounding in my ears as we ran . When the Amlingmeyer brothers receive an urgent summons from Otto...

First Line: " I can't choose," Brandy Inkrott said. "I want to kill them all. " There's a secret, wildly ex...

First Line: I was three months from thirteen when Mama and I stepped off the carriage in the Mississippi River town of Reliance . Havin...