The Morrill Memorial Library is partnering with the Tewksbury Public Library and other MLN libraries to host a summer series of virtual author talks. On Wednesday, June 29 at 7:00pm, join us on Zoom for "The Woman In The Library: A Murder Mystery set in the Boston Public Library," by Sulari Gentill, author of The Woman in the Library.

The tranquility of the Boston Public Library's reading room is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who happened to sit at the same table pass the time in conversation, and friendships are struck. Each has their own reasons for being in the reading room that morning; it just happens that one is a murderer. A sharply thrilling read, The Woman in the Library is an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.

About the author: After setting out to study astrophysics, graduating in law, and then abandoning her legal career to write books, Sulari Gentill now grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of Australia.  Gentill's Rowland Sinclair mysteries have won and/or been shortlisted for the Davitt Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and her stand-alone metafiction thriller, After She Wrote Him, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 2018. Her tenth Sinclair novel, A Testament of Character, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Best Crime Novel in 2021. Learn more about Gentill here.

Registration is required; please sign up HERE. Note that Zoom details will come from the Tewksbury Public Library, the hosting institution. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Morrill Memorial and Tewksbury Public Libraries.