![]() ![]() ![]() The most intriguing character, Leo, lurks offstage. ![]() “The Woman in the Library” relies heavily on conversational exposition - too often characters offer information we’ve heard already - but shares with its predecessor a teasing hall-of-mirrors quality. This is her second stand-alone novel, following “After She Wrote Him,” the ingenious tale of a twisted pas de deux between a crime novelist and one of her characters, who seems to have a mind of his own. ![]() Gentill is an Australian writer with a long-running detective series set during World War II. They were all together, so who did it? Besides Freddie, the group includes Whit, a Harvard law student with an eye for the ladies Marigold, a tattooed psychology student and Cain, a writer bristling with secrets that will be meted out like sweets as the story goes on. Freddie, the budding novelist who narrates Sulari Gentill’s THE WOMAN IN THE LIBRARY (Poisoned Pen Press, 265 pp., paper, $16.99). (A body will eventually be discovered, crumpled at the bottom of a staircase.) Drawn together by this exciting event, four strangers talk late into the night, “and I have my first coffee with a killer,” relates Winifred Kincaid, a.k.a. A little murder, a little blackmail, some psychological suspense, an epic battle to the death in a corner of Australia: There’s something for just about every mood in this season’s tasty batch of thrillers.Īll is calm in the Boston Public Library reading room when a woman’s terrified scream pierces the air. After the alarming winter and the weird spring comes the escapist summer. ![]()
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