The Woman in the Library

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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.

Leo, a fan who corresponds with Hannah, provides details based on real murders to help her with her manuscript. Ned Kelly Award winner Gentill ( Crossing the Lines ) presents a complex, riveting story within a story. When choosing what to review, I enjoy a good murder mystery or a thriller, but can also be partial to a puzzle or an escape game.It’s an inventive and unique approach, elevated by Gentill’s masterful plotting, that will delight suspense fans looking for something bold and new. Her unique style of writing “The Woman in the Library” was fantastic as at first, it was a bit confusing with “letters” at the end of each chapter but as I kept reading, it was all finally starting to make sense.

This sort of instant intimate friendship is rare but then they are bound by the scream in the library and what appears to be a turn of events that solidifies but also threatens their friendship. Hannah is being stalked by Leo while writing about Freddie, who is engaging with friends she met at a murder scene, and is also writing about the people she met the day a woman was murder in the Boston Public Library. A murder at the library, people bonded by a scream, another murder or two, a manuscript, lots of book talk, someone playing Nancy Drew, interesting turns that had me double guessing myself and swaying my opinion of the murderers identity.She’s fickle and easily offended, likely to sulk if I don’t give her my complete attention when she’s gracing me with her presence. Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. I found the character development to be excellent, however, the story-within-a -story and its complexities did not work for me. He provides advice to Hannah about her use of Australian terms instead of American ones, but his advice is sometimes hit or miss.