CHASING AWAY THE BLUES WITH INTROS/TEASERS – “ALL DAY AND A NIGHT”

 

 

Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, from Tuesday/First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by Should Be Reading.

Today I am excerpting from All Day and a Night, by Alafair Burke, an ARC.

 

 

 

Intro:  (Chapter One)

Ellie Hatcher was a gambler, even though she’d been raised to pretend that gambling was reckless.  Foolhardy, her mother would call it (because Roberta Hatcher wanted to believe that she grew up in an old-money world of Tudor manors surrounded by show horses, instead of a no-money world of aluminum-sided houses encircled by cyclone fences).  Worse than foolhardy, to risk money on games of chance was arrogant.  Smug.  To think that somehow the randomness of the universe would align in your favor was…unseemly.

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Teaser:  Rogan was twisting the cap on his Montblanc pen, always a sign that he was growing impatient with a conversation and didn’t care if people noticed.  Ellie was about to encourage Max to get to the point, but remembered all the times she’d insisted that he not treat her like a girlfriend at work. (p. 18).

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Blurb:  When psychotherapist Helen Brunswick is murdered in her Park Slope office, the entire city suspects her estranged husband—until the District Attorney’s office receives an anonymous letter. The letter’s author knows a chilling detail that police have kept secret: the victim’s bones were broken after she was killed. Her injuries were eerily similar to the signature used twenty years earlier by Anthony Amaro, a serial killer serving a life sentence for his crimes. Now, Amaro is asking to be released from prison, arguing that he was wrongly convicted, and that the true killer is still on the loose.

NYPD Detectives Ellie Hatcher and JJ Rogan are tapped as the “fresh look” team to reassess the original investigation that led to Amaro’s conviction. The case pits them against both their fellow officers and a hard-charging celebrity defense lawyer with a young associate named Carrie Blank, whose older sister was one of Amaro’s victims.

As the NYPD and Amaro’s lawyers search for certainty among conflicting evidence, their investigations take them back to Carrie’s hometown, where secrets buried long ago lead to a brutal attack—one that makes it terrifyingly clear that someone has gotten too close to the truth.

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Do the excerpts pull you in?  Pique your curiosity?  I hope you will share your thoughts.

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