“Susannah Elphinstone lived there”
He nodded at the house across the valley. It took less than fifteen seconds for the name to register then Rose Madigan’s grey eyes momentarily flashed with the green light of interest.
Thank God, her brother thought, ever since she had arrived, self-invited (but nevertheless welcome) he had seen she was in desperate need of something to relight the spark of curiosity which had been notably absent and which was undoubtedly linked to the current and unexplained absence of Baz Rose, the most recent and, he’d thought, most important man in her life.
“The notorious Susannah” she said, then her eyes took on another expression, which he could not read, but which made him wish he’d kept his mouth shut.
“That was one of Luke Darbyshere’s rare and inexplicable failures, wasn’t it?”
He nodded at the house across the valley. It took less than fifteen seconds for the name to register then Rose Madigan’s grey eyes momentarily flashed with the green light of interest.
Thank God, her brother thought, ever since she had arrived, self-invited (but nevertheless welcome) he had seen she was in desperate need of something to relight the spark of curiosity which had been notably absent and which was undoubtedly linked to the current and unexplained absence of Baz Rose, the most recent and, he’d thought, most important man in her life.
“The notorious Susannah” she said, then her eyes took on another expression, which he could not read, but which made him wish he’d kept his mouth shut.
“That was one of Luke Darbyshere’s rare and inexplicable failures, wasn’t it?”
THIS SIXTH ROSE MADIGAN MYSTERY BRINGS HER CLOSER TO DANGER THAN EVER BEFORE
Week #49’s response to Lisa Ricard Claro’s Book Blurb Friday challenge and Kathy Matthew’s instantly inspirational photograph. Each week Lisa posts a photograph which represents a book cover. Participants are challenged to “Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book” http://www.writinginthebuff.net/p/book-blurb-friday.html
Most mysterious, Sandra. The question "why?" would make me want to buy the book.
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That is what I was going to say too ... very mysterious. It leaves me wondering who Susannah was, in what way was she an experiment, what is going on with Rose and I noted that if Rose marries Baz, her name would be Rose Rose, lol. Your book would be a good one. Glad you liked the photo!
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Kathy - thank you for that - Rose and Baz are the main characters in my 2011 NaNo novel (inspired by an earlier BBF) and she overcomes the Rose Rose problem by using Madigan as a first name.
ReplyDeleteKay - the question 'why?' might well force me to write the blessed book!
Wonderful blurb, Sandra. This does just what a blurb should do---it generates more questions than answers and leaves me speculating and itching to flip to page 1. Glad to see Rose back in action, and I hope Baz shows up later. I remember him from some of your other blurbs, and I like him!
ReplyDeleteYou can't leave us hanging like this! This is an awesome blurb and I'd love to read the book. Need any beta readers for your NaNo book? *sways hand in air* Pick me, pick me.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa - Baz is a favourite of mine too, he'll certainly appear, ugly and sexy as ever ...
ReplyDeleteGrandma - 'beta reader' is a new expression to me (the second of the day thanks to Calico Contemplations 'carceral' - and it's only 6 a.m.) but you might want to reconsider - it's 130K words long and not yet finished ...