First Line Friday #84-Echoes Among the Stones

Welcome back to First Line Friday hosted by Carrie at Reading is My SuperPower!!  I am also linking up with Gilion on Rose City Reader for Book Beginnings. This is where you share the beginning of the book that you are reading. To join in the fun grab the book you are reading and leave a comment with the first line (or your link). This week I am reading Echoes Among the Stones by Jaime Jo Wright. 

She should have paid more attention to her longtime neighbor, Oliver Schneider, when she passed him on the road at dawn. 

Book Beginnings:

Mill Creek, Wisconsin

July 1946

She should have paid more attention to her longtime neighbor, Oliver Schneider, when she passed him on the road at dawn. Her, hiking at an energetic, running-late march, and him strolling the lane, hands in his pockets, and overall straps over thin but strong shoulders. After all, they'd grown up together-albeit more acquaintances than friends-and Oliver rarely said anything that wasn't worth listening to. But, while Imogene had paused for a polite morning greeting, she hadn't taken his words and let them sink into her soul as perhaps they should have.

Oliver gave her his resigned smile-the smile the community of Mill Creek had grown used to since his return from overseas. A sad one, with ghosts in his eyes.

"Red in the mornin'," he quoted, "sailors take warnin'. Red at night, sailors' delight."

Synopsis (Goodreads):

After Aggie Dunkirk's career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her vintage, though very outdated, home. Aggie didn't plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene—even going so far as to re-create it in a dollhouse.

Mystery seems to follow Aggie when she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of the town's cemetery. Forced to work with a puzzling yet attractive archaeologist, she exhumes the past's secrets and unwittingly uncovers a crime that some will go to any length to keep hidden—even if that means silencing Aggie.

In 1946, Imogene Grayson works in a beauty salon but has her sights set on Hollywood. But coming home to discover her younger sister's body in the attic changes everything. Unfamiliar with the burgeoning world of forensic science and, as a woman, not particularly welcomed into the investigation, Imogene is nonetheless determined to stay involved. As her sister's case grows cold, Imogene vows to find justice . . . no matter the cost.

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