Mother-Daughter Murder Night has a great first line. But technically it’s the prologue. And when you combine it with the first line of chapter 1, even better. “Beth knew she couldn’t leave for work until she dealt with the dead body on the beach” Mother-Daughter Murder Night, Nina Simon (Prologue) “Three hundred miles south, Lana…
“Perhaps he’ll die this time. He finds this doesn’t worry him. Maybe because he’s so cold he has a drunkard’s grip on his mind. When thoughts come, they’re translucent, free-swimming medusae.” First lines of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. And I was hooked on her voice from the very beginning.
“He woke up with no eyebrows and no idea how he’d gotten into such a position.” –Dreadful, Caitlin Rozakis
“Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.” –Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
the starving artist 