Book Beginnings Friday: Still Life With Murder by P.B. Ryan

Here’s how it works: post the first line of the book you’re currently reading, and why it caught your fancy!

Here’s mine, from P.B. Ryan’s Still Life With Murder:

“It’s going to be a bad one.” Dr. Greaves said it so quietly that Nell, sitting across from him in the Hewitts’ glossy black brougham, almost didn’t hear him.

Now if that’s not an auspicious beginning for a mystery, I don’t know what is. Suffice to say it drew me in. If you’re interested, here’s the Goodreads synopsis:

Young Irish immigrant Nell Sweeney is governess for the adopted daughter of wealthy Bostonians Viola and August Hewitt. Nell has become a favorite confidant of Viola. The pair had four grown sons, the eldest two thought to have died in Andersonville during the Civil War. A visit from a family friend changes all that with news that sets in motion a chain of events that has the potential to restore this torn family or to destroy it forever. The news that August receives is that his eldest son Will is still very much alive, though he might not be for long–Will Hewitt sits in jail accused of having slashed a man’s throat during an opium rage. Nell and Viola set out to prove Will’s innocence and catch the true criminal…

So – what are you reading?

And thanks to the Rose City Reader for coming up with this great Friday idea!