May 2025 Author’s Video for Sulari Gentill

 

May 2025

Sulari Gentill

The Woman in the Library

Character List for The Woman in the Library

The Correspondents

Hannah Tigone—Australian author, writing a novel about a writer-in-residence who’s drawn into the mystery of a woman murdered in the Boston Public Library

“Leo Johnson”/Wil Saunders—a fan of Hannah’s work and self-appointed “sounding board” and U.S. fact checker for her current novel; he’s an aspiring writer who also hopes Hannah can persuade her agent to take on his “opus”

Special Agent Michael Smith—FBI agent investigating “Leo Johnson”

Characters from the Boston Public Library Reading Room

Winifred “Freddie” Kincaid—the 27-year-old narrator, a writer from Australia who is in Boston as a writer in residence on a Sinclair Fellowship

Whit Metters—aka “Heroic Chin”; Harvard Law student who’s trying to fail so as not to be absorbed in the family firm

Cain McLeod/Abel Manners—aka “Handsome Man”; 30-year-old published writer from North Carolina where he has a possible criminal past (his defense attorney was Jean LeMarque)

Marigold Anastas—aka “Freud Girl”; a Harvard psychology student

Carolyn Palfrey—the dead woman in the library; a sometime reporter for The Rag (and the granddaughter of the judge in McLeod/Manner’s case)

Occupants of Carrington Square

Leo Johnson—a writer in residence from Alabama who’s in the Sinclair Fellowship program

Katerina Wolanski—a British speculative-fiction writer in the Sinclair Fellowship program

Dr. Briton Ibe—a writer of political satire from Somalia in the Sinclair Fellowship program

Joe—the main doorman for Carrington Square

Mrs. Elias/Dr. Irma Weinbaum—a widow who sometimes represents herself as a doctor; she lives with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Gladys Jackson

Related Characters

Frank and Jean LeMarque Metters—Whit’s parents; both are lawyers whose law firm, Metters & Putnam, represents the Palfreys

Isaac Harmon—a homeless man who helped McLeod/Manners when McLeod/Manners first arrived in Boston as a 15-year-old runaway; Harmon has since died, and McLeod/Manners may be writing a book about him

Shaun Jacobs—aka Boo; a homeless man and friend of Harmon’s who blames McLeod/Manners for Harmon’s death

Lauren Penfold—a photographer from The Rag who knew Palfrey

Authorities

Detective Kelly—the Boston Police detective working the Palfrey case

Detectives David Walker and Justine Dwyer—Boston Police detectives investigating McLeod/Manners in connection with Boo’s death

Jarod Stills and Liam McKenny—attorneys with Zackheim & Associates, a law firm retained by the estate of Dr. Elias Wienbaum that represents Irma from time to time when she poses as a doctor