The Mystery Writer
Author: Sulari Gentill
Pages: 400
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Murder Mystery, Thriller
Hook:
When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. Will her brother support her ambition or send her back to finish her degree? What will her parents say when they learn of her decision? Does she even have what it takes to be a successful writer?
What Theo never expects is to be drawn into a hidden literary world in which identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of an audience. When her mentor, a highly successful author, is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. Then the police begin looking at her brother, Gus, as their prime suspect, and Theo does the unthinkable in order to protect him. But the writer has left a trail, a thread out of the labyrinth in the form of a story. Gus finds that thread and follows it, and in his attempt to save his sister he inadvertently threatens the foundations of the labyrinth itself. To protect the carefully constructed narrative, Theo Benton, and everyone looking for her, will have to die.
Rating: 9.5/10
I would strongly recommend this book
Review: Wow. I was expecting this book to be good, but this was REAllY good. The plot was interesting and action packed, without going too fast, the characters had in-depth personalities and were very unique, and I really liked the ending. Just before the ending I was really questioning whether or not the book could pull itself back together to form a good ending, and it did! I was super impressed and honestly consider this one of the best books I’ve read this year.
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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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