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“Gentill has done it again, cleverly planting covert details throughout this fast-paced novel featuring an entourage of characters including Theo, aspiring Aussie author, her lawyer brother Gus, and his friend Mac P.I. Plan to indulge yourself with conspiracy theorists, missing manuscripts or manifestos, chance meetings… or not, a dubious literary agency, and a dog named Horse! And let’s not forget a few murders. The Mystery Writer deserves the prize for the most compelling opening sentence! ”
— Mindy • The River's End Bookstore
Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him—to save him. Then she disappears. But the writer has left a trail, a thread out of the labyrinth in the form of a story. When Gus finds that thread, he follows it, and in attempting to find his sister, inadvertently, or perhaps recklessly, threatens the foundations of the labyrinth itself. In order to protect the carefully constructed deceit, Theo Benton, and everyone who ever looked for her, will have to die.
Sulari Gentill is the award-winning author of The Rowland Sinclair Mystery series, historical crime fiction novels set in the 1930s. She won the 2012 Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. After setting out to study astrophysics, graduating in law, and then abandoning her legal career to write books, she now grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales.
Katherine Littrell is a Sydney-based audiobook narrator who studied English literature at Bryn Mawr College. She has lived in the United States and the U.K. but is glad to be back home in Australia, where she enjoys knitting, making furniture, and talking out loud to herself in small spaces.
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"Narrator Katherine Littrell provides excellent character voices [...] Gentill’s (The Woman in the Library) latest should appeal to listeners who enjoy murder and mayhem." - Library Journal "Katherine Littrell portrays Theodosia, who gives up her law studies in Australia and goes to stay with her brother, Gus, in Kansas to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Littrell’s strong characterizations and use of accents create believable and likable characters. In fast-paced dialogue Littrell seamlessly moves between Australian and American accents, letting the humor that is sprinkled throughout the twisting plot shine." - Audiofile Magazine Expand reviewsWant the printed book?
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