First Line Fridays – Send Down the Rain

I’ve been wanting to read a Charles Martin book for a long time now, and I picked this one up from the library this week. I can’t wait to get started on it!

Send Down the Rain

by Charles Martin

Send Down the Rain
Witnesses say the phone call occurred around seven p.m. and the exchange was heated.


This first line hints at so much. “Witnesses.” Something happened. The kind of thing, a crime or an accident, in which a witness’s report is required. The time is noted, indicating that something big happened at that time and possibly after as well. And a heated exchange indicates dissension or antagonism. A possible motive? A cause?  I can’t wait to dive in and find out more.


What’s the first line of the book you’re reading? Or the book nearest to you?


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14 thoughts on “First Line Fridays – Send Down the Rain

  1. I have this waiting for me to read. I may have to up it on the TBR now. 😀

    I’m sharing about “By the Waters of Babylon” by Mesu Andrews on the blog today, but I’m currently reading “Where the Fire Falls” by Karen Barnett so my first line will come from there.

    Olivia Rutherford applied lip rouge the same way she painted -with bold, broad strokes. Anything to distract from the truth.

    Happy Friday and hope you have a wonderful weekend filled with reading excellent books! 😀

  2. Happy Friday! My first line comes from I’ll See You in Paris by Michelle Gable

    GOOSE CREEK HILL
    MIDDLEBURG, VIRGINIA
    OCTOBER 2001

    “Maybe she’ll surprise us,” Eric said.

  3. Happy Friday!

    I shared the first line of the 8th book from the In Death series, Conspiracy in Death. But here, I’ll share with you the first line of one of the books I’m currently reading. This one is from Kit Frick’s “See All the Stars.”

    JUNE, SOPHOMORE SUMMER
    (THEN)

    We went to the party because Ret insisted. I was perfectly happy right where we were: lying on our backs in Jenni’s sprawling front yard, building our best-ever summer playlist, telling time by the dandelion clocks until the sky was a white haze of down. We were idle and airy. We had perfected the summer loaf.

    Hope you enjoyed that. Happy weekend! 😀

  4. Hmm…I’ll have to see if my library has that too. I just started TURNING IN CIRCLES by Michelle Buckman.

    First line: My sister lay sleeping in the sun on the beach beside me, her skin so pale and fine it was like the sand beneath us formed into flesh, even to the flecks of freckles playing across her cheeks.

  5. Happy Friday! My first line is from Other People’s Children by Ellen Fannon (which I have laughed so hard through the little bit I started reading): Prologue:

    “Why are children so childish?” Robin groused to herself as she sat valiantly attempting to put two coherent thoughts together for her newspaper column that was due tomorrow.

  6. Happy Friday! I’m hoping to read Send Down the Rain this month 😀
    I’m sharing from the third Lady Alkmene Callender Cosy Mystery on my blog today. Here are the first lines from the fourth, Fatal Masquerade by Vivian Conroy:

    “Can’t this thing go any faster?” Denise Hargrove snapped at the driver. During the drive she’d consulted her watch over and over again, exuding a nervous energy Lady Alkmene Callender found hard to place.

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