Happy Friday & welcome to the First Line Friday link-up hosted by Reading Is My Suoerpower ! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today I’m featuring the first line of The Metropolitain Affair by Jocelyn Green. I just love Jocely’s books they are filled with historical detail.
And the first line is………..
Manhatten, New York City
Wednesday, October 14, 1925
Dead people were easy to talk to.
About The Book
Bestselling author Jocelyn Green sweeps you away in a dazzling novel of secrets, betrayal, and romance within one of New York City’s most esteemed museums.
For years her explorer father promised Dr. Lauren Westlake she’d accompany him on one of his Egyptian expeditions. But as the empty promises mounted, Lauren determined to earn her own way. Now the assistant curator of Egyptology for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lauren receives two unexpected invitations.
The first is her repentant father’s offer to finally bring her to Egypt as his colleague on a new expedition. The second is a chance to enter the world of New York’s wealthiest patrons who have been victims of art fraud.
With Egyptomania sweeping the city after the discovery of King Tut’s tomb, Detective Joe Caravello is on the hunt for a notorious forger preying on the open wallets of New York’s high society. Dr. Westlake is just the expert he needs to help him track the criminal. Together they search for the truth, and the closer Lauren and Joe get to discovering the forger’s identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime.
Pub Date 14 Mar 2023 Bethany House Publishers
Let me know the first line of the book closest to you.
Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by.
Vegan Book Blogger 
12 replies on “First Line Friday”
Ha! Great first line Deanne!💜
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It’s a pretty intriguing first line Susan. Have you read this one yet?
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Not yet!🤦♀️😥💜
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I know what you’re saying 🤪😊💖☕🤗
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That is an intriguing first line!
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It has me hooked and
ready to dive in.
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Happy Friday!
I’m currently reading The Metropolitan Affair by Jocelyn Green. It’s really good!
“In some ways, Ivy and Elsa were two peas in a pod.”
I hope you have a great weekend!
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Yes, wonderful book. I love her books. Have a great weekend!
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That sounds like an interesting book. This is the first line + a couple of more to make sense of it. It is from the book closest to me “The New Climate War by Michael Mann”.
“There is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels….there are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered…”
“You might be forgiven for assuming those prophetic words were spoken by Al Gore in the mid-1990s. No they were the words of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil senior scientist James F. Black in recently unearthed internal documents from the 1970s”
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That does make sense though we are ruining what we have and don’t even care.
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That’s a first line clearly designed to draw the reader in!
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Hahaha, I’ll say.
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