Book Beginnings on Friday: Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield

Book Beginnings on Friday

 

I have heard it said, by those that cannot possibly know, that in the final moments of a man's existence he sees his whole life pass before his eyes.-The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Summary Courtesy of Goodreads: 

As a boy, William Bellman commits one small, cruel act: killing a bird with his slingshot. Little does he know the unforeseen and terrible consequences of the deed, which is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. By the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, William seems to be a man blessed by fortune—until tragedy strikes and the stranger in black comes. Then he starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed. Desperate to save the one precious thing he has left, William enters into a rather strange bargain, with an even stranger partner, to found a decidedly macabre business.

And Bellman & Black is born.
 

How about that first line?  Having read it, how can you put this novel down?  And believe me it sure does set the tone for what is to come.  I'm over half way through Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale, and although I had to wait seven years to read her second novel it was worth the wait.  Bellman & Black  is intriguing.  It is the type of book that keeps you on your toes.  Just when you think you know where you are going with this one, you realize you don't.

Thanks to Rose City Reader for hosting this event every Friday allowing bloggers to share the first sentence of a book that they are  reading and offer some impression of said book!

 

 

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