Book Beginnings + Friday 56: A Dream within a Dream (Coffey & Hill #3) by Mike Nappa & Melissa Kosci

Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading. Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice and asks you to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and share a non-spoilery sentence or two.

This week I'm featuring A Dream within a Dream (Coffey & Hill #3) by Mike Nappa & Melissa Kosci. The first two books in this series, Annabel Lee and The Raven, are some of my absolute favorites in this genre, so I was ecstatic to get this third installment for Christmas. I was afraid it wouldn't live up to it's predecessors, but it definitely does. I love it.

About the Book

Trudi Coffey only realizes that she hasn't seen Samuel Hill in weeks when the FBI shows up asking questions about him. After a strange encounter with an armed man demanding her help and an attack by a member of the Boston mob looking for someone named Dream, Trudi manages to find Samuel--or rather, he finds her. He's made some pretty powerful enemies, but right now his full attention is on protecting Dream from the mob. Because Dream has something they want--the map to the location of artwork stolen from the Gardener Museum during the infamous 1990 heist.

With danger closing in from all sides, Trudi and Samuel will have to call on all of their allies to keep Dream safe and discover the identity of the people who have been hunting down Samuel. The real questions are whom can they trust? And who will make it out of this thing alive?

Book Beginnings

"Get. Down."

He's driving too fast, looking too often at his rearview mirror. The world outside us is a strange, pale kind of twilight. There's no sun in the sky that I can see, yet there's still some kind of half-light, as if day is resisting night, refusing to go to bed like an ill tempered child.

Friday 56

Whispers circulated. Most of the group stayed pretty quiet with the two guards in the room, but I could hear how agitated they all were. Everyone, at least in their lucid moments, liked Clara. She treated everyone like a human being, even the inmates who seemed barely human.

What have you been reading lately?