Based on their appearances and their behavior in the library, Hannah gives her suspects names like Heroic Chin, Handsome Man, and Freud Girl. After that unusual bonding experience, the four spend much time together, especially when their curiosity is raised by the discovery of a murdered woman, presumably the screamer, under a table in the library meeting room. Cain, Whit, and Marigold happen to be sitting at the same table when they hear the horrendous noise of a woman’s screams. The scream unites Freddie with the woman and two men sitting near her: they form a friendship but Hannah tells us right at the start that one of them is a murderer. When they arrive at Whit’s house to confront Marigold and save Whit from her, Whit shoots Cain and confesses that he was responsible for Caroline and Boo’s death.

com}: The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet—until a woman’s terrified scream shatters the tranquility. Her main character, Winifred ‘Freddie’ Kinkaid is also an author, working on a new book in the inspiring setting of the Boston Public Library. i am a dramatic person with a flair for believing everything to be a sign from the universe, so i thought my liking this was ordained. The way she processed everything through the lens of an author, plotting connections and possibilities as if it were a novel she’s writing was great. The Woman in the Library is a sophisticated mystery with more layers than an onion, created by a master hand.

While the book isn't your typical read, it was a refreshing narrative that kept me guessing throughout the whole book. I reach out and touch his face, trying to think of some way to reassure him that I am choosing this with full knowledge of what he did. This man, Leo Johnson, is also an author, very down in the dumps about the publishing industry’s lack of interest in his book. Someone stabs Whit, an event that makes them realize they may be in danger because of their proximity to the murder in the library.

Ned Kelly Award winner Gentill ( Crossing the Lines ) presents a complex, riveting story within a story. When you read Sulari Gentill’s new psychological thriller, The Woman in the Library, you may need to stop every so often and think, ‘Where am I? I was thinking to give four stars because the whodunnit subplot’s culprit was a little obvious even though the author tries harder to deceive us by pointing out the other characters as suspects. A chance scream in a library, the place you’re meant to be at your quietest, throws four total strangers together who quickly form a close bond of friendship. Yeah, I know that sounds a bit confusing but the reading experience is next-level, to say the least.So, what you are reading are the chapters in Hannah’s novel, concerning Freddie and her new friends. She’s in Australia and the novel is set in the US, so Leo’s offering advice on relevance, language, and feasibility. It’s Freddie and her friends that you become invested in as the reader, as the murder mystery deepens and it becomes difficult to know who to trust. I was very impressed by her command of accents, which ranged from Australian to perky American to Southern drawl.

They are all suspects, and, as it turns out, each character has their own secrets and motivations - and one of them is a murderer. Dervla McTiernan, author of The Murder Rule`Wickedly clever, highly original and thoroughly entertaining - I loved it!

The Woman in the Library” by Sulari Gentill is the first novel I’ve ever read by this author as I was excited to see what kind of murder mystery I was jumping into. Whilst we don’t actually find out much about Hannah, we read each of her newly-written unpublished chapters, and are soon thrown into Hannah’s fictional story. i was waiting for this to be made a part of the story - turns out he's a freak who was never in america at all, or something! Again, Gentill carries this off brilliantly and and it’s well-paced with a sense of menace building as the stories unfold – both the novel Hannah’s writing as well as the communication and relationship between Leo and Hannah. As she learns more about Marigold’s stalking of Whit and the true story of Cain’s early life, she begins to suspect that everyone in the group has secrets, and she is not sure whom to trust.