I don’t want to say too much about the plot because I feel as though it’s best that you don’t know too much going in. He makes corrections, fights for his suggestions, and sends photos he thinks Hannah should use for inspiration. That Hannah had written in a reliable, kind version of Leo to counteract what her penpal had really turned out to be? com}: The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet—until a woman’s terrified scream shatters the tranquility.

I just finished the audiobook and listened to the last chapter multiple times to see if I’d missed something. Dervla McTiernan, author of The Murder Rule`Wickedly clever, highly original and thoroughly entertaining - I loved it! She tells the story of Wharton’s library in concert with Wharton scholarship and treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book history, material and print culture, and the histories (and pathologies) of collecting. I did, however, enjoy this novel immensely, and I also enjoyed this added guessing game bonus provided to me through my copy, so thanks again to Ultimo Press for their efforts.But it quickly becomes obvious that four people, one of whom is the first-person narrator, is too few suspects to sustain a full-length novel. I thought Gentil, through Hannah, deliberately wrote the ending poorly as an F U to real Leo and what he represents. But as sinister events continue to dog them and they're unable to shake the shadow of the murder, it's clear one of them is hiding secrets.

It offers a review of the many meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific collection in light of its owner’s literary celebrity. Once upon a time, Sulari Gentill was a corporate lawyer serving as a director on public boards, with only a vague disquiet that there was something else she was meant to do. He suggests she use hoodies to help readers realize Cain is Black and to include masks in her narrative. In the story-within-a-story, Freddie learns the truth about Cain’s past, but she allows her attraction for him to overwhelm her reason.Her widely praised standalone novel, Crossing the Lines, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel, was short-listed for the Davitt Award, and chosen as Apple's Best Book of the Month for April 2020. i was waiting for this to be made a part of the story - turns out he's a freak who was never in america at all, or something! It ultimately argues for a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton’s literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site of her self-making. You believe this guy because you want to, because for some reason beautiful, intelligent women seem drawn to dangerous men—” He stops short as he realises what he’s just said. I have to say, Gentill’s style of writing is very good as that first chapter set the tone for what I felt was likely to be a solid murder mystery.