Australian writer Winifred Kincaid procrastinates by naming the strangers sharing her table at the Boston Public Library: Heroic Chin, Handsome Man, and Freud Girl. But then a woman's scream piercing the silence in the reading room becomes the catalyst for a tenuous friendship among the four library patrons…a relationship that proves increasingly dangerous as the mystery behind the scream deepens. This wonderfully addicting and very clever literary thriller is a mystery-within-a-mystery unlike anything I've read before! (AG)