Reviewed: The Woman in the Library, Sulari Gentill, Ultimo Press

The Woman in the Library is a book about a writer writing a book about a writer writing a book. Though much of the solitary act of writing is difficult to externalise let alone dramatise, Sulari Gentill’s thrilling, twisty, meta murder mystery is the glossy sheen through which we access the inner thoughts and motivations of two writers: bestselling Australian crime writer Hannah Tigone and her creation, Winifred ‘Freddie’ Kincaid, also a crime writer. In this palimpsest of writers as subjects and creators, duplicitous desires, suspect pasts and obscured truths are uncovered.