Kittling: Books

  First Lines: Eagle Springs, North Carolina, 1931. Dorothy Baker's reputation is on the line . Walking to work one morning, Ruth Foster...

  First Line: There should be some kind of warning when your life is about to change forever .   North Carolina's richest and most notor...

  First Line: On the morning of the worst, most earth-shattering day of Ray McMillian's life, he ordered room service: scrambled eggs fo...

  First Line: It wasn't just the bullet passing by Patton's left ear that concerned her .   When small-town librarian Patton Harcour...

  First Line: " There's no place where a beer tastes better than at a baseball game. "   When a local environmentalist is foun...

  First Line: The man on the park bench stared at the empty space above the knuckle of Nora Pennington's pinkie finger .   The man on th...

First Line: Summer Merriweather slipped off her flip-flops, allowing the sand's warmth to comfort the bottom of her feet like it had tho...

First Line:  Daniel Tate clenched his teeth and looked away just as the needle pierced a vein in his arm . The only real reason why Ryd...

First Line: The noonday heat smothered me . A body unearthed during a forest fire at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute outside...

First Line: Rose's head drops, jerks, and she's awake . Rose Dennis wakes up in a gaping hospital gown standing out in a strang...

First Line: " How did we let ourselves get involved with this?" Cora Chevalier whispered to best friend and business partner, J...

First Line: " Now you've gone and done it!" my business partner, Esme Sabatier, said, lifting a cucumber slice off one eye ...

First Line: My partner, Nakayla Robertson, had taken a long weekend in Charleston with the women in her book club for the annual retreat ...

First Line: " All I think about is death," said Laurel Hobbs to her friend and fellow Bayside Book Writer Olivia Limoges . Ol...

First Line: I kidnapped her . Cora Chevalier is very happy to have ended her career being in charge of a women's shelter in the big...

First Line: FBI Special Agent Kim Woodson kicked the wipers up a notch in the futile effort to clear the falling snow off her windshield ...

First Line: Thunderstruck . Professional genealogist Sophreena McClure is under no illusions: Detective Je nnifer Jeffers does not lik...