March 10th's Friday Post

We've made it to Friday!  Let's celebrate with a Friday post.  I'll be linking up to:

Book Beginnings
First Line Friday
Friday 56
Book Blogger Hop

For the first three this week, I'll be pulling teasers from Hooked on Murder by Betty Hechtman.

This is the first in her Crochet Mysteries.  It actually came out in 2008, so I'm very late in picking it up.  I think you'll see why I'm using it for my teasers this week when you see how the book begins.

When I stopped by Ellen Sheridan's house to drop off the crochet hooks she'd left at the bookstore, I expected to be in and out with maybe a thank-you and a few brownie points.  I certainly didn't expect to end up in handcuffs.

Isn't that a great opening?

On page 56, we are at the reception after the funeral, and Molly, the main character, is observing Ellen's widower.

I wondered about Lawrence.  As I'd watched him walk through the room, he has seemed too in control, too distant.  I wondered whether he really was that cold, or whether he was a master of shutting off uncomfortable feelings.

I did have some mixed reactions to the book.  I'll have more for you next Thursday when I post my full review.  I hope you'll come back then to read it.

Let's turn to this week's Book Blogger Hop.  This week's question is:

Do you listen to audiobooks with earbuds or headphones?

Very little.  When I started listening to audiobooks, it was in my car while driving.  The pandemic made me more of a hybrid listening - car and around the condo.  Since I live alone, I will just let the book play if I am in my condo.  However, I have started listening to audiobooks some during parts of my walks.  (There's too much traffic to listen the entire time.)  When I'm doing that, I listen with my earbuds in.