First Lines Friday is a weekly feature 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?

Here’s how it works!

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!

The events chronicled in this narrative took place some four years ago.

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

Murder in Mesopotamia is my most recent read. I read this book as part of my Poirot read through and I quite enjoyed it. I thought the ending was clever, I liked the characters, and I always enjoy catching up with Hercule Poirot.

Goodreads Synopsis: An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq…

It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of ‘Lovely Louise’, wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner.

In a few days’ time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late…

If you’re interested, you can purchase a copy of Murder in Mesopotamia from Amazon* here

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