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. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning ― it just happens that one is a murderer. The Australian Womens Weekly Sulari Gentill pulls back the curtain on writers and their fixations, revealing the duplicity, the secret rages and the jealousy. How fact can become fiction, fiction fantasy. 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. PRAISE FOR THE WOMAN IN THE LIBRARY: This is a brilliant book about words. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. The tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. She won the 2012 Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Sulari Gentill sets this mystery-within-a-mystery in motion with a deceptively simple, Dear Hannah, What are you writing? pulling us into the ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library.īut fair reader, in every person's story, there is something to hide. Sulari Gentill is the award-winning author of The Rowland Sinclair Mystery series, historical crime fiction novels set in the 1930s.
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