Book Beginnings + Friday 56: Burden of Poof (Bonnie & Clyde Mysteries #1) by Julie Anne Lindsey

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. I'm also linking up with Carrie at Reading is My Superpower for First Line Friday.

This week I'm featuring Burden of Poof (Bonnie & Clyde Mysteries #1) by Julie Anne Lindsey. It's such a fun cozy mystery. 

About the Book

An amateur sleuth named Bonnie and her kitty companion Clyde, with names like those, what could possibly go wrong?

Life hasn't sparkled too brightly for Bonnie Balfour over the past few years, but a heart-breaking divorce has brought her back to her small rural hometown of Bliss, Georgia, and things are starting to shape up.

The proud new owner of Bless Her Heart—a second chance dress shop and boutique on the town square—Bonnie thinks thirty-eight might not be too late for a fresh start in life after all.

Until a grouchy old widow turns up dead in a pile of donations meant for Bonnie’s shop, and the town’s new detective pins her to the top of his suspect list!

To save her shop, dream and reputation, Bonnie must coordinate clues and stitch together the truth about her innocence, but the unreasonably handsome detective and prying eyes of the local gossip mill are fast fraying her nerves.

When a series of anonymous attacks begin to hem her in, Bonnie fears the real killer is fixing to make her his next victim. Can this amateur sleuth measure up?

Book Beginnings / First Line Friday

"Welcome to Bless Her Heart!" I called, thrilled at the sound of jangling bells against my new boutique's glass front door. Bless Her Heart, a second-chance dress shop and retailer of all things pretty, had been brewing in my heart for a lifetime, and finally, at age thirty-nine, I'd pushed that dream into existence. It seemed almost poetic that my failed marriage had prompted my major move into entrepreneurship because I identified with my products more than ever now. This was, after all, my second chance too.

Friday 56

I delivered the pitcher of water and glasses that had been set out on the countertop inside. "How's the local news looking?"

"You're not mentioned today," he said. "That's refreshing."

What have you been reading lately?