Tuesday Teaser A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

"She hesitated an instant too long, and I touched her sleeve again, urging her inside.  I myself was shivering with the cold now, and I knew she must be chilled to the bone.  Even for a London December, it was unbearably wretched."

Page 6

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Tuesday Teaser The Glass of Time by Michael Cox

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Title:  The Glass of Time
Subtitle:  The Secret Life of Miss Esperanza Gorst
Publisher:  W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date:  2008
Pages:  583
Source:  Purchased

Page 305
"He made no attempt to greet me, but I was not dismayed; for I instantly read again everything I had seen before in that glorious book of his smile, and in the way he regarded me-as if he had wished to see no one else on God's earth but me."

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Teaser Tuesday/ The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox

"How would I be avenged?  I turned the question over and over in my mind, imagining the ways in which Phoebus Daunt might be made to feel what I had felt, and envisioning the means by which his hopes could be destroyed."

Title:The Meaning of Night A Confession
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher:WW Norton and Company
Date:2006
Page:  153

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Tuesday Teaser The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery AAmes

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme, hosted by Should Be Reading.  This meme is tons of fun.  Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

*Grab your current read

*Open to random page

*Share 2 “teaser” sentences from that page

* BE CAREFUL NOT TO SHARE SPOILERS!!

* Be sure to share Title and Author so other TT participants can add the book to TBR lists!

Here s my Tuesday Teaser:

"The Skin on his face clung to his bones.  Some people said he was a womanizer, but I couldn't see it.  The Grim Reaper held more appeal."

Book Title:  The Long Quiche Goodbye

Author: Avery AAmes
Publisher:Berkley Prime Crime
Page:  19

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Teaser Tuesday

"In the flickering glow, Lord Scargrave's face appears as ravaged as it did in the dim light of his death chamber: not the manner in which such a man would wish to be remembered.  Were it not for the superstitions of the local folk, who come to pay their respects in a silent, shuffling file, Isobel should never have ordered the casket closed:  but the Earl of Scargrave must be seen to be truly dead by all the surrounding country before his heir may take up his title."

Title: Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

Author:  Stephanie Barron

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