Sulari Gentill

'A mischievous twist on mystery novels and the people who write them.' - Benjamin Stevenson, author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone She needs to write the ending ... before she meets hers. Theo has one dream - to become a bestselling author. Determined to make her mark in the literary world, she heads to the US on a whim to stay with her brother Gus and focus on her writing. But her plans take an unexpected turn when she befriends a famous author, Dan Murdoch, at a local bar - and then he turns up dead. Suddenly, Theo finds herself as the prime suspect. As Theo grapples with the shocking turn of events, she realizes that Dan may not have been the person he seemed to be, and there is something sinister going on in the world of publishing. Desperate to clear her name and uncover the truth, Theo sets out on a quest to find out who killed Dan and why. As she digs deeper, Theo uncovers a web of deceit, conspiracy, and hidden motives, with clues leading her to a shadowy online platform called The Shield. With her own life in danger, Theo must unravel the mystery before she becomes the next victim.

The Mystery Writer

It's funny that John Grisham is mentioned somewhere in here because that was literally a reoccurring thought as I read the book is that it reminded me of a classic mystery novel and John Grisham specifically came to mind! I love Surali's prose which is usually very important to me because otherwise I don't really connect to the story. Aside from references of recent world happenings you don't really know when this book is set which I love. The book is surprisingly funny. It is definitely has promise to join the ranks of mystery classics. One thing that ruffled my little feathers though was Theo's naivete for most of the book. Granted she is just coming into adulthood though, ill give it a little bit of a pass. In conclusion, Mac Etheridge marry me pls.

Opus Clopus

*netgalley arc* 

It's funny that John Grisham is mentioned somewhere in here because that was literally a reoccurring thought as I read the book is that it reminded me of a classic mystery novel and John Grisham specifically came to mind! I love Surali's prose which is usually very important to me because otherwise I don't really connect to the story. Aside from references of recent world happenings you don't really know when this book is set which I love. The book is surprisingly funny. It is definitely has promise to join the ranks of mystery classics. One thing that ruffled my little feathers though was Theo's naivete for most of the book. Granted she is just coming into adulthood though, ill give it a little bit of a pass. In conclusion, Mac Etheridge marry me pls.

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill was a book that I just finished reading yesterday and I was a bit disappointed because the storyline zoomed in different directions simultaneously and I found it very hard to follow what was happening. I also could not engage with the characters as I usually do in other books because they were not well elaborated on as to what their likes/dislikes were, their past histories, their relationships with others, etc. so I felt distant from them and their adventures.

The pace of the storyline went too fast for me to get a good grasp of the various settings in the storyline and the interactions between characters. For example, at one point, the main characters, Cormac, Gus, and Theodosia, were arrested by the police for further questioning in the murders of three individuals - Mary Cowell, Burt Winslow, and Dan Murdoch, and before I could get the scenario well established in my mind, I found out that Theo disappeared. It left me hanging in the lurch and it wasn't until later on in the novel, that I found out what happened to Theo. Additionally, the fight scenes in the novel felt too simplistic for my liking; there should have been more elaboration of the physical struggles between Jock and Bellhop and our protagonists. When Mac and Augustus start looking for Theo and discover that she is in Dallas, the storyline veers off unexpectedly to Theo's situation with Veronica Cole which left me puzzled as to how Mac and Gus's search for Theo connected with Theo's escape from the hotel room in Dallas; I didn't find that the storyline flowed very well. Although the author does explain some of the questions that I had about Theo and how she disappeared during the story, and how Mac got locked in prison (in the aftermath of Gus's shooting) and what happened to Gus when he came out of the hospital, I could not say that I was entirely satisfied overall with the book's entertainment value. I will not factor out reading future novels from this author as she is a good writer and her plot was good enough to be publishable however it felt that more development to the storyline was necessitated. I do hope to read more from Sulari Gentill.

Stavroula Kalantzis

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill was a book that I just finished reading yesterday and I was a bit disappointed because the storyline zoomed in different directions simultaneously and I found it very hard to follow what was happening. I also could not engage with the characters as I usually do in other books because they were not well elaborated on as to what their likes/dislikes were, their past histories, their relationships with others, etc. so I felt distant from them and their adventures.

The pace of the storyline went too fast for me to get a good grasp of the various settings in the storyline and the interactions between characters. For example, at one point, the main characters, Cormac, Gus, and Theodosia, were arrested by the police for further questioning in the murders of three individuals - Mary Cowell, Burt Winslow, and Dan Murdoch, and before I could get the scenario well established in my mind, I found out that Theo disappeared. It left me hanging in the lurch and it wasn't until later on in the novel, that I found out what happened to Theo. Additionally, the fight scenes in the novel felt too simplistic for my liking; there should have been more elaboration of the physical struggles between Jock and Bellhop and our protagonists. When Mac and Augustus start looking for Theo and discover that she is in Dallas, the storyline veers off unexpectedly to Theo's situation with Veronica Cole which left me puzzled as to how Mac and Gus's search for Theo connected with Theo's escape from the hotel room in Dallas; I didn't find that the storyline flowed very well. Although the author does explain some of the questions that I had about Theo and how she disappeared during the story, and how Mac got locked in prison (in the aftermath of Gus's shooting) and what happened to Gus when he came out of the hospital, I could not say that I was entirely satisfied overall with the book's entertainment value. I will not factor out reading future novels from this author as she is a good writer and her plot was good enough to be publishable however it felt that more development to the storyline was necessitated. I do hope to read more from Sulari Gentill.

The Mystery Writer

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