The Woman in the Library

Australian author, Hannah Tigone, is writing a crime novel set in the Boston Public Library. Due to COVID-19 restrictions she is unable to travel to America so an American agrees to read her draft chapters and send any background information that might be required.

The story that Hannah is writing concerns four strangers - Freddie, Marigold, Whit and Cain - who are sitting at the same table in the library when a woman's scream resonates throughout the reading room. Some time later a woman is found dead in an adjoining room.

Freddie, an Australian author on a writing scholarship, decides to base her next book on the events surrounding the scream they heard in the library. Cain is also an author and they soon bond as they discuss writing. Whit is a law student who would rather be a writer while Marigold is a psychology student. The murder forms a bond between the four strangers as they try to find out what really happened, especially as members of the group become suspects.

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill is a stand alone crime novel by the author of the Rowland Sinclair series. This book is a story within a story but is also the reverse of a locked room senario - this time the crime occurred in an open room in a busy building. As the story unfolds we learn more about the main characters, especially their back story. This is a fast paced crime novel with many twists and turns until the perpetrator of the crime is revealed.