Teaser Tuesday 197: A Timely Vision

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current book or recent read.
* Share a few "teaser" sentences from somewhere in the book.
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!


This week I am reading A Timely Vision, the first book in the Missing Pieces series -- one of the many series by Joyce and Jim Lavene. The Lavene's are this month's Featured Author for the Cozy Mysteries group at Goodreads. Here's a teaser from early in the book:

I pitched forward, face-first, in to the sea oats. A few of the sharp leaves scratched my cheek and chin. I guess I must have closed my eyes as I fell because when I opened them, it wasn’t sea oats that I saw.

(Chapter two)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Series: Missing Pieces, book one

Meet Dae O’Donnell, a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes it leads her to lost keys or earrings—and sometimes it leads her to murder.

The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O’Donnell wears many hats. She’s the ceremonial ribbon cutter, champion of the local turtle population, and the person everyone turns to when they’ve lost something. One touch and Dae can find it, and missing pieces seem to find their way to her, whether she wants them to or not.

When town matriarch Miss Mildred seeks out Dae to help find her missing watch, Dae’s vision leads her straight into a murder investigation. Now she must prove that Miss Mildred isn’t a cold-blooded killer. With the help of town newbie and retired FBI agent Kevin Brickman, Dae sets out to prove Mildred’s innocence—hoping she won’t become Duck’s next missing piece . . .