First lines of novels

[Tiamaria]

Can anyone out there help? I need the authors and titles of these. " Ignoring the pouring rain, he came out of the house, and then turned to chek that the front door had closed properly behind him."
" Demon bones and the scribblings of madmen"
"The dark wood was green and gold, green where the oak trees stood crowded together with misshapen twisted trunks, red gold where the great smooth beeches lifted their branching arms to the sky"