Murder incredible!

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill       

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I’ll admit that I was unsure where this unusual murder mystery arose from and where it was heading. It’s definitely not a cosy mystery. It hangs around in the thriller zeitgeist.

By the time I was into the second chapter I was still trying to build a picture of events, and who was who. Talk about needing bits of tape to join the pieces together! Reality and fiction became intertwined—despite it all being fiction. By this time I’d been neatly suckered in and there was no way I was leaving.

So we begin with four unusual strangers hearing a woman’s scream in the Boston library. This single fact draws them together. The four Boston Library would-be-friends are amazing, somewhat weird, and all have secrets. I loved the whole crazy group encounter—built on a scream and held together by that event. 

I really enjoyed the plot. Australian writer Hannah, a Marriott Fellowship Holder who’s working on a novel about—Yup! You guessed it—a murder mystery involving an Aussie in the US.  I laughed at the writer’s comments on Chocolate, Thanksgiving and Coffee. All so true.

We also have our fictional author and our author both embedded in the novel with strange happenings occurring for both. I’m still unsure if this is fiction imitating life, or vice versa.

I should add that Sulari Gentill is one of my fav writers, and this novel keeps her there!

A Poisoned Pen Press ARC via NetGalley