This week my teaser lines come from the new Scott Turow novel, Innocent. It's a follow-up to Turow's 1987 best-seller, Presumed Innocent, and revisits attorney Rusty Sabich twenty years after being tried and acquitted of the murder of his colleague and lover, Carolyn Polhemus. These lines are from page 1, and form the opening paragraphs of the book; they're being spoken (or thought, I suppose) by Nat Sabich, Rusty's 28-year-old son:A man is sitting on a bed. He is my father.Yes, I know that's more than two lines. Sorry, but I didn't want to cut anything. Also, what the lines don't tell you (explicitly, anyway) is that the woman under the covers (Nat's mother) is dead.
The body of a woman is beneath the covers. She was my mother.
This is not really where the story starts. Or how it ends.
How about you? Got a great teaser from a book you're reading right now? Want to play along? Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by mizB at Should Be Reading. If you'd like to read more teasers, or take part yourself, just head on over to her blog.
Oooo I want to know more.
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I got the feeling she was dead, even though it wasn't explicit.
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Ooh so intriguing! Great teaser. My teaser this week is from THE PASSAGE and it's up at The Crowded Leaf.
ReplyDeleteGreat Teaser! Here is my Teaser Tuesday:
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Feel free to stop by tomorrow for my review and GIVEAWAY of the book and a new ARC, by the same author, next Spring when it is released!
Sincerely,
Emma Michaels
Waiting for my audiobook of this to arrive....
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Great haunting teaser!
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Happy reading. :)
xx,
E.J
WOW-is that the killer talking or the person who is accused? Sounds thrillerish!
ReplyDeleteSometimes you just have to use more than 2 lines - I had to this week too :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for commenting on my blog! I don't usually read Christian Fiction either, but this series is really good!
Things don't sound very good! Thanks for visiting.
ReplyDeleteawww...That saddened me.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like an interesting book.
Thanks for visiting my `teaser`
Great teaser!
ReplyDeleteSounds really interesting! I'm going to have to add this one to my wish list. Thanks for the teaser and for stopping by my site.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great opening to a book, full of intrigue.
ReplyDeleteNice one!
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My tease is from one of the extracanon gospels, that of Judas.
Oh wow. That sounds ominous! Great teaser!
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I haven't read Turow for a while --- but maybe I'll pick this one up! :)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds good...which is great to see, since my last Turow was disappointing...
ReplyDeletehere's my teaser:
http://rainysnowday.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/teaser-tuesdays-12/
Can't wait to read this one. Great tease.
ReplyDeleteOhh that's a really great teaser!
ReplyDeleteVery intriguing teaser. I have never read this author.
ReplyDeleteMy Tuesday Teaser is Claire de Lune by Christine Johnson.
Intriguing! Never heard of these books before. I'll have to check them out.
ReplyDeleteWow, he wrote a sequel twenty years later? People who read the original must have been pretty excited.
ReplyDeleteI love your teaser!!!
ReplyDeleteHere is my teaser
http://limpetsandpenguins.blogspot.com/2010/05/teaser-tuesday-100518.html
That's an interesting start!
ReplyDeleteI saw a promo for this and thought, fantastic! Your teaser just reiterates that thought :). Gabladon's Outlander series so far is just wonderful, #1 was heartbreakingly touching.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog,
Paula
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