The Woman in the Library
Author: Sulari Gentill
Pages: 292
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Murder Mystery, Thriller
Hook:
The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who'd happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.
Award-winning author Sulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with The Woman in the Library, an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.
Rating: 7.9
I would recommend this book
Review: Wow!! This book had such an intricate plot. It was made up of layers about people, writing about people, writing about people, writing about books!! Sounds confusing? For me, it was a little confusing, but less than I would have expected. I kept waiting for when the sub-plots, or extra layers would connect and all interweave together, but in that case I was a little disappointed. When it comes to plot, the general idea and execution was well done and was well written. Though, I did find some parts near the middle to get slow. I really liked most of the characters, and loved the in-depth personalities. In my opinion, overall, the goods outweighed the bads, forming a good, solid book. However, there were small parts throughout I was less of a fan of.
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Sulari Gentill is the author of the multi-award-winning Rowland Sinclair WWII Mysteries, a series of historical crime novels set in 1930s Australia about Rowland Sinclair, the wealthy gentleman artist cum amateur detective. The tenth in the series Where There’s a Will, was published in the United States by Poisoned Pen Press in January 2022. Under the name S. D. Gentill, Sulari wrote the acclaimed fantasy adventure series the Hero Trilogy: Chasing Odysseus, Trying War, and The Blood of Wolves. Her widely praised standalone novel, After She Wrote Him, was chosen as a Target Recommends book for 2020 and Apple’s Best Book of the Month for April 2020. In Australia, where Sulari lives, it won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel and was short-listed for the Davitt Award.
Sulari was part of an Australia Council-sponsored delegation of Australia Mystery Writers who toured the U.S. in 2019 to represent Australian crime fiction to a U.S. readership. Most recently, she was awarded a Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Fellowship. Sulari lives in a small country town in the Australian Snowy Mountains on a truffle-growing farm, which she shares with her family and several beloved animals. She remains in love with the art of storytelling.
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