Read this book for:

• the humour
• Leo Johnson’s commentary on the book DRAFT chapters. He’s a beta reader.

The story is not easy to follow, IMHO.

Four strangers are sitting in the reading room of the Boston Public Library quietly working when a woman’s scream pierces the silence.

Later, a body is found, and the four characters quickly become friends as they work to piece together what happened.

That’s the premise of Sulari Gentill’s mystery, titled “The Woman In The Library.” 

The 4 seeming strangers are:

• Winifred “Freddie” Kincaid, an Aussie writer
• “Freud Girl”
• “Heroic Chin”
• “Handsome Man” (Cain)

The author uses those nicknames when she doesn’t yet know who they are.

The whodunit is which is the murderer.

So far, so good.

The confusion for me is that this tale is being written by another Aussie author, Hannah Tigone — who’s getting emails from beta reader Leo Johnson, an American who knows Boston well. And American idioms.

Finally, the real author is Sulari Gentill, yet another Aussie author.

If my math is correct, there are 3 murder mystery authors. YOU sort them out. 😀