BREAKING NEWS: Grave Shift is now available in audio format. Wonderful! I’ve waited for the day I could make this announcement and now it’s here. I can’t wait for you to hear the narrator. She sounds like Darcy to me. You can listen to a free sample at Amazon and I hope you do. And then tell me what you think. Audio books are fun and I am especially pleased with this one. 
This morning, I was thinking about the importance of the way an author begins her story. If the first line of a book catches my attention, I am apt to read the second line and the third. However, if the first line is a turn-off, I close the book.
My car’s headlights cut a swath through the swirling snow.
“What on earth were you talking about, Cub?” I asked the big, red-faced man who jumped off the seat of his dirt-mover.
The letter came on a warm morning in November.
When I awoke to sunshine, blue skies, and the fragrance of freshly-perked coffee that morning, I had no inkling that a few hours later, the sun would be blotted out by menacing clouds or that my mother and I would stumble upon a dead body in a brush pile in Goshen Cemetery.
I awoke sitting straight up in bed, my heart doing double time.
Can you match the first lines to the appropriate cozy mystery?
Yep, i think so. …but one of them isn’t out to the public yet, is it?
You are right. It’s the last line (clue. ha!) But, hopefully, it’ll be released some time this spring. Listen to the audio of Grave Shift when you have time and let me know what you think.