{"product_id":"the-woman-in-the-library-9781728261942","title":"The Woman in the Library","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/em\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Investigations are launched, fingers are pointed, potentially dangerous liaisons unfold and I was turning those pages like there was cake at the finish line.\" --Moira Macdonald, \u003cem\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/em\u003e must-read books for summer 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNed Kelly award winning author Sulari Gentill sets this mystery-within-a-mystery in motion with a deceptively simple, \u003cem\u003eDear Hannah, What are you writing?\u003c\/em\u003e pulling us into the\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eornate reading room at the Boston Public Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn every person's story, there is something to hide...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. 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. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning--it just happens that one is a murderer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with \u003cem\u003eThe Woman in the Library, \u003c\/em\u003ean unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat readers are saying about \u003cem\u003eThe Woman in the Library\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I loved this intelligent, high tension, addictive, unputdownable book so much!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a smart, well-written whodunit with an interesting cast of characters and a well-developed plot.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A murder mystery that starts off in a crowded library full of book lovers? SIGN ME UP!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What an outstanding job and literary work in the crime-fiction genre!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGentill, Sulari:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAfter setting out to study astrophysics, graduating in law and then abandoning her legal career to write books, SULARI GENTILL now grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGentill's Rowland Sinclair mysteries have won and\/or been shortlisted for the Davitt Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and her stand-alone metafiction thriller, After She Wrote Him won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 2018. Her tenth Sinclair novel, A Testament of Character, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Best Crime Novel in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poisoned Pen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615017111826,"sku":"9781728261942","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3da4fb64-5545-4002-93b6-2cd9e8a3ed8c.jpg?v=1748690673","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-woman-in-the-library-9781728261942","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}