Sunday is when we do beginnings, taking a look at the start of a Peter Abrahams novel, including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker™. Because of the recent very nice piece in Medium on my Echo Falls trilogy for younger readers, let’s go with the start of Into the Dark, book 3.

“Brucie?” said Jill Monteiro, director of the Prescott Players. “Could we have that line again?”
“‘Do not vorry, my little Gretel,'” Bruce said. “‘All vill be vell.'”
Jill gazed at him for a moment, her dark eyes thoughtful. “That would be a German accent?”
“Jawohl, Kommandant,” said Brucie.