The Woman in the Library

This utterly compelling read features not just a book within a book but a mystery within a mystery! Australian writer Freddie Kincaid is working in Boston after winning a literary fellowship. She's sharing a table with three strangers at the Boston Public Library when the quiet is pierced by a woman's scream—and the four, who quickly bond after sharing this frightening moment, later discover that what they really may have heard was a murder taking place. But wait! Freddie and her pals are actually characters in a novel that established Australian writer Hannah Tigone is working on, and she's mailing chapters we're reading to a doting fan who has some advice for Hannah ... along with pointed tips that grow ever more disturbing. This is a fun little puzzle box of a book, although I've got to warn you: some of you are going to hate the ending.