This week my teaser lines come from a book I discovered while browsing the shelves at my local public library last week. Let's All Kill Constance is a mystery novel by Ray Bradbury, one of my favorite writers, but one I usually associate more with sci-fi and fantasy than whodunits. I haven't actually started this one yet, so I'll just give you some lines from the opening section of the book:It was a dark and stormy night....it was a stormy night with dark rain pouring in drenches on Venice, California, the sky shattered by lightning at midnight....The only thing that moved in all that flood ten miles south and ten miles north was Death. And someone running fast ahead of Death.Bradbury is such a wonderful writer, and I didn't know he wrote mysteries, so I'm really curious about this one. And, as the book's dust jacket says, only Ray Bradbury would be audacious enough to begin a book with that dark and stormy night routine.
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I have never read Ray Bradbury. I always thought of him as science fiction but I love mysteries have to check this one out! Thanks for sharing.
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Every time I read that "dark and stormy night" line, I picture snoopy with his typewriter.
ReplyDeleteLOL on the dark and stormy night! Too funny. But the rest of the teaser sounds scary.
ReplyDeleteNice to know that Bradbury wrote a mystery. must look it up!
ReplyDeleteGreat teaser! My teaser is from a Wodehouse collection of stories.
ReplyDeleteI too have not read Bradbury... yet. Love the teaser, especially the descriptiveness of it. Such a vivid picture. :)
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I'm teased. Mysteries always tease me.
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That's quiet an awesome setup to a great mystery novel hopefully!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely an intriguing looking book. I didn't think anyone these days actually ever used the "it was a dark and stormy night" line anymore.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great teaser! Hope you enjoy this book!
ReplyDeleteThis is a new Bradbury for me! Thanks for posting about it. I've read another mystery by him: Death is a Lonely Business. I thought it was his only one. Adding another to the towering TBR list!
ReplyDeleteConsider me intrigued. Would love to know what you think of this one when you're done. Enjoy, and thanks for visiting!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds good but I know I wouldn't want to be Constance -- seems everybody is against her!
ReplyDeleteOh, swoon for Bradbury! I haven't read this one but it's a GREAT quote. :0)
ReplyDeleteI love that he started it that way, too great. The title's pretty nifty too, especially since I'm not Constance.
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