In Sulari Gentill’s new novel, aspiring writer Theo and her brother Gus become embroiled in increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories.   Full Review at Newtown Review of Books

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The Mystery Writer

The image of the book cover for The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill includes the tagline 'She needs to write the ending ... before she meets hers', includes the quote 'A mischievous twist on mystery novels and the people who write them.' BENJAMIN STEVENSON author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

The image has a pale pink background, with the tagline at the top and the author's name at the bottom followed by 'Award-Winning Author'

In the centre there's a face of a startled / frightened woman with longish brown hair and eyes wide open - looking towards the right, her mouth is open and both hands held up to her face. She's looking out from the outline of a laptop on which two black hands are resting, the arms heading off to the right.There's an envelope in outline to the left with words 'A Mystery' written on it.

There's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory—until it turns out to be true

When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. Will her brother support her ambition or send her back to finish her degree? What will her parents say when they learn of her decision? Does she even have what it takes to be a successful writer?

What Theo never expects is to be drawn into a hidden literary world in which identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of an audience. When her mentor, a highly successful author, is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. Then the police begin looking at her brother, Gus, as their prime suspect, and Theo does the unthinkable in order to protect him. But the writer has left a trail, a thread out of the labyrinth in the form of a story. Gus finds that thread and follows it, and in his attempt to save his sister he inadvertently threatens the foundations of the labyrinth itself. To protect the carefully constructed narrative, Theo Benton, and everyone looking for her, will have to die.

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Fri, 01/03/2024
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