First Lines...

"The body was blue.

Not merely wearing blue, he was blue -- and not the blue pallor of death. He was sapphire from head to toe, a deep shade of mood indigo."

Shot Through Velvet by Ellen Byerrum,

part of her Crime of Fashion Mystery series

First Lines...

"Father Aiden O'Brien was hearing confessions in the lower church of St. Francis of Assisi on West Thirty-first Street in Manhattan. The seventy-eight-year-old Franciscan friar approved of the alternate way of administering the sacrament, that of having the penitent sit on the Reconciliation Room with him, rather than kneeling on the hard wood of the confessional with a screen hiding his or her identity."

I'll Walk Alone by Mary Higgins Clark

Release Date April 5, 2011

For mystery fans, Mary Higgins Clark is a sure bet! Always a satisfying read, and this new mystery is no different! Who walks in to confess and what they are confessing is the start of this great read! Watch for my review...

First Lines...

"My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city--well, I', not saying the event would have gone unnoticed, but the fuss would probably only have lasted a week before public interest moved elsewhere..." The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant