But the safe is empty…and now a library staff member has also gone missing. Liesl Weiss, now interim director, has been called in from her sabbatical to open the safe that should contain the book. The director of the University of Toronto Library suffers a stroke as he was about to retrieve a rare book from a safe. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk, 2022. ‘Check out’ these five biblio-centric and library themed readalikes for The Woman in the Library for more murder, mayhem and mystery in the stacks. The experience showed her how there could be “a kind of a special bond that was built up by that shared distress.” You can hear Gentill speak more on the genesis of The Woman in the Library in this interview with NPR.
Gentill says that she was inspired to write this mystery novel about strangers bonding through unsettling circumstances after she was evacuated from the 2019-2020 bush fires in Australia to a refugee house, where she lived with three other families.
In addition to our book club pick, she is also the author of many other novels, including her award-winning Roland Synclair Mysteries series. She was born in Sri Lanka, learned English in Zambia, and has spent most of her life in Australia, where she currently lives. In a starred review, Bookpage describes The Woman in the Library as a “smart, engaging novel that blurs genre lines” and will “delight suspense fans looking for something bold and new.” The New York Journal of Books enjoyed the labyrinthian plot of the book, noting that it reads like “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” The mystery-focused book review website Criminal Element agrees, championing the novel as “a delightfully meta-textual examination of writing in the 21st century” and praising its ability to tackle “complex literary issues with both wit and panache.”īefore becoming an author, Sulari Gentill studied astrophysics and practiced corporate law. You can register for the program at our event page. Which one of the four is the murderer? And does author Hannah Tigone’s helpful fan really have good intentions behind his helpful suggestions? Copies of the book are available from the library through the catalog, Libby ( eBook and eAudiobook ) and Hoopla ( eBook and eAudiobook ).
In this suspenseful novel, a mystery writer is working on her latest book in which four strangers are united by a scream one day in the Boston Public Library. via Zoom to discuss The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill! Check our events page to register. Join library staff and fellow book lovers on October 20th from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
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