While the book isn't your typical read, it was a refreshing narrative that kept me guessing throughout the whole book. Unfortunately, I wasn't engaged in the story at all and I finished it only because I had received an ARC.

That might be okay if it were a cliffhanger for the next book about Freddie, but I think it’s a standalone book.this would be kind of boring and weird even at the best of times, but it is truly made one of a kind in that the loser friend has a roughly 50% accuracy rate on his advice and corrections. 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, focusing on Edith Wharton and her remarkable collection of books. Winner of the Crime Fiction Lover Best Indie Crime Novel of 2022'Ingenious, light-hearted and old-fashioned in the best possible way. What a Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming’s ongoing work digitizing the Wharton library collection.

She’s incorporating some of the writing elements he wanted her to (gore, whodunit cliches) and it’s bad. com}: The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet—until a woman’s terrified scream shatters the tranquility. As you understood: you just read two plots at the same time and there’s a smart move from the author who also added Leo as a colleague of Freddie at the library murder story which makes us confused more about the motives of the character. Initially, the source of the scream is not revealed until the next day when it is made public that the body of a young woman, who worked for a local tabloid, had been found. The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill is a captivating literary thriller about the friendship forged by four strangers.When they hear the scream, the four are sitting at the same table at the library, surreptitiously studying each other.

I give “The Woman in the Library” by Sulari Gentill a 4/5 as there are several layers of mystery here that adds good depth to the main story that left me guessing to the very end. Hannah Tigone is an Australian author living in Sydney, writing about another Australian author Freddie (Winifred), recipient of a fellowship which has her living in Boston for a year. Everyone assumes the scream came from Caroline Palfrey and that Caroline died sometime shortly after the scream. The relationships among the friends are well developed, and, as Freddie gradually falls in love with McLeod, you hope she’s not getting in over her head.Shocked, they end up striking up a quick and effortless friendship…only to find out soon after that the screaming woman was murdered. Freddie seizes on this incident as the ideal start for her new opus, which involves “a group of people united by a scream.