“On November the twenty-first, the day of her forty-seventh birthday, and three weeks and two days before she was murdered, Rhoda Gradwyn went to Harley Street to keep a first appointment with her plastic surgeon, and there in a consulting room designed, so it appeared, to inspire confidence and allay apprehension, made the decision which would lead inexorably to her death.” ~ P. D. James, The Private Patient
Kathy Waller 
wow, what a narrative hook!
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It’s amazing how much James can pack into one sentence–and make you want to read the next one.
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Even better than “It was a dark and stormy night.”
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Yes. I think James does her best to avoid that one.
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