Teaser Tuesday: The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint

 

Welcome to Teaser Tuesday, the weekly Meme that wants you to add books to your TBR! You can also just share what you are currently reading. We make it very easy to play along. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3! Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Ambrosia at the Purple Booker.

1: Grab your current read. 2: Open to a random page. 3: Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title and author so that other people can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teaser!

 The paper was so virgin, so unnaturally white, that anything she placed upon it--graphite, ink, watercolor--seemed an intrusion, a desecration. Any line she might draw would seem no better than a child's crayon marks on a kitchen wall. 

p. 12  The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint

The Wild Wood was published in 1994 by Bantam Books.

Happy Book Birthday to The Only One Who Knows by Lisa M. Matlin

 

Through Raspberry Colored Glasses wants to wish a Happy Book Birthday to The Only One Who Knows by Lisa M. Matlin.

From the publisher:

A disgraced TV news reporter returns to her violent hometown to investigate a series of deadly shark attacks in this nail-biting suspense novel from the author of The Stranger Upstairs.

“A gothic coastal noir about generational violence and the cyclical nature of predation, The Only One Who Knows is visceral, haunting, and impossible to look away from.”—Carter Wilson, USA Today bestselling author of Tell Me What You Did

Something is lurking below the surface . . . and it’s hungry.

With her polished persona as a morning show co-host, Minnow Greenwood seems to have it all. But behind the camera, something’s about to break. When a public meltdown shatters her facade, Minnow flees back to Kangaroo Bay—a grimy fishing town on Australia’s southern coast, where locals vanish and something deadly hunts in the water.

On her first night back, a horrifying shark attack rocks the town, adding another body to the unsettling list of deaths and disappearances. Then a former colleague arrives to investigate, so she reluctantly teams up with him to find answers for herself and keep her own dark secrets buried.

But with danger closing in, Minnow must unearth her town’s deadly past—and face the darkness festering inside her—before she becomes the next to disappear.

The Only One Who Knows by Lisa M. Matlin is out today from Bantam Books.

And a Teaser: 

Heath gives me a sidelong look, and I keep my eyes on the sand until Colleen snorts, “There was a fatal attack yesterday and he still wants to surf. God, he’s crazy.”

Lisa M. Matlin. The Only One Who Knows. Kindle Edition