First Lines Friday – #Orentober edition #2

Hi and welcome to First Lines Friday – #Orentober edition!

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

I love this feature, and I thought it would be a fun way to shine the spotlights on some fab Orenda books. So here goes:

It was an accident. An unfortunate turn of events. It was an misunderstanding, a delicate imbalance between push and shove. And thus the neck broke like a plank snapping in two.

As I was going through my extensive Orenda collection in search of the perfect opening lines, I came across this one and had to admit I’d forgotten it, although reading it, I can remember the feeling of being in for a treat. Can you guess the book???

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Which Orenda powerhouse wrote these ominous opening lines?

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It is…. a he, and he’s been called the funniest writer in Europe by the NY Times…

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And this is a line from a wickedly funny book indeed…

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The title alone gives pause…

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Featuring an undercover policeman…

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On the hottest beach of Northern Europe…

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It is:

This is the blurb and you can find my review here, if you’d like to know more:

Jan Nyman, the ace detective of the covert operations unit of the National Central Police, is sent to a sleepy seaside town to investigate a mysterious death. Nyman arrives in the town dominated by a bizarre holiday village – the ‘hottest beach in Finland’. The suspect: Olivia Koski, who has only recently returned to her old hometown. The mission: find out what happened, by any means necessary.
With a nod to Fargo, and dark noir, Palm Beach, Finland is both a page-turning thriller and a black comedy about lust for money, fleeing dreams and people struggling at turning points in their lives – chasing their fantasies regardless of reason.

Thanks for stopping by! What do you make of these first lines, yay or nay? Let me know below!

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