The brand-new instant USA Today bestselling standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight, Julie Clark. Perfect for fans of Gillian McAllister, Lisa Jewell and Claire Douglas.
'A powerful, ultimately moving whodunnit' THE TIMES
'Expertly plottedandexquisitely twisted' ASHLEY ELSTON, #1 NYT-BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRST LIE WINS
'Intriguing and twisty' C. J. TUDOR
"I know what your dad did."
I set down my sandwich. "He wrote a book."
The boy, whose name I no longer remember, had shaken his head, eyes sparkling with glee to be the one to tell me. To shatter my childhood right there in the school cafeteria. "Your dad killed his brother and sister. Murdered them in their own home."
Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of legendary horror author Vincent Taylor, famous not only for his novels, but for being the prime suspect in the brutal slaying of his siblings.
On the brink of financial ruin, Olivia reluctantly agrees to ghostwrite her father's last book, not realising that she will be forced to reckon with the ghosts that live at the centre of her family. Because after fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk. But is he ready to tell the truth?
Genre: Mystery
'A powerful, ultimately moving whodunnit' THE TIMES
'Expertly plottedandexquisitely twisted' ASHLEY ELSTON, #1 NYT-BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRST LIE WINS
'Intriguing and twisty' C. J. TUDOR
"I know what your dad did."
I set down my sandwich. "He wrote a book."
The boy, whose name I no longer remember, had shaken his head, eyes sparkling with glee to be the one to tell me. To shatter my childhood right there in the school cafeteria. "Your dad killed his brother and sister. Murdered them in their own home."
Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of legendary horror author Vincent Taylor, famous not only for his novels, but for being the prime suspect in the brutal slaying of his siblings.
On the brink of financial ruin, Olivia reluctantly agrees to ghostwrite her father's last book, not realising that she will be forced to reckon with the ghosts that live at the centre of her family. Because after fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk. But is he ready to tell the truth?
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"In The Ghostwriter, Julie Clark peels back the painful layers of generational trauma in exquisite, chilling detail, to solve a long-unsolved double homicide. The Ghostwriter is a totally original, haunting literary thriller." - Mary Kay Andrews
"Once again, Julie Clark is the queen of the twist. Intricately layered and full of emotional complexity, The Ghostwriter throws you in the deep end and keeps you there until the very last page. It left me breathless." - Janelle Brown
"The Ghostwriter is a smart, compulsive, and intelligent thriller. I was hooked from the outset by the clever premise, which is elegantly executed. Julie Clark is fast becoming one of my favorite crime writers." - Lucy Clarke
"I was completely gripped by Julie Clark's phenomenal latest, The Ghostwriter, which is both a pulse-pounding thriller as well as a heart-wrenching family suspense with an explosive, decades old mystery at its center. Told from shifting points of view with propulsive, dual timelines, I couldn't stop racing through its pages. With twist after mind-blowing twist and a final reveal that will honest-to-God leave your jaw on the floor, The Ghostwriter is the ultimate masterclass in plotting. Elegant, wholly original, and completely unputdownable, I was transfixed." - May Cobb
"Julie Clark does it again. In The Ghostwriter, Clark takes on family secrets with her trademark suspenseful storytelling and exquisite twists. The Ghostwriter is Clark at her best." - Laura Dave
"I love all of Julie Clark's books and The Ghostwriter is at the top of that list! Expertly plotted and exquisitely twisted... Julie Clark masterfully weaves together a daughter's long-held suspicions and her father's deadly secrets with the tragic events from the past. The Ghostwriter kept me turning pages in this suspenseful search for the truth." - Ashley Elston
"Beautifully written, utterly immersive and completely thrilling. A surefire hit." - Jo Spain
"Julie Clark is a master storyteller at the top of her game. The Ghostwriter is a richly layered family drama unspooling out of a dark history, as much a tale of a woman searching for connection with her enigmatic father as it is a brilliant mystery about a night of violence whose consequences echo into the present. Clark's books are always irresistibly plotted and expertly written, but The Ghostwriter, with its powerful emotional reckoning at the center, its father and daughter reaching for each other across time, takes it to a whole new level. This is a book to be devoured and then, in retrospect, savored. I loved everything about it." - Ashley Winstead
"Once again, Julie Clark is the queen of the twist. Intricately layered and full of emotional complexity, The Ghostwriter throws you in the deep end and keeps you there until the very last page. It left me breathless." - Janelle Brown
"The Ghostwriter is a smart, compulsive, and intelligent thriller. I was hooked from the outset by the clever premise, which is elegantly executed. Julie Clark is fast becoming one of my favorite crime writers." - Lucy Clarke
"I was completely gripped by Julie Clark's phenomenal latest, The Ghostwriter, which is both a pulse-pounding thriller as well as a heart-wrenching family suspense with an explosive, decades old mystery at its center. Told from shifting points of view with propulsive, dual timelines, I couldn't stop racing through its pages. With twist after mind-blowing twist and a final reveal that will honest-to-God leave your jaw on the floor, The Ghostwriter is the ultimate masterclass in plotting. Elegant, wholly original, and completely unputdownable, I was transfixed." - May Cobb
"Julie Clark does it again. In The Ghostwriter, Clark takes on family secrets with her trademark suspenseful storytelling and exquisite twists. The Ghostwriter is Clark at her best." - Laura Dave
"I love all of Julie Clark's books and The Ghostwriter is at the top of that list! Expertly plotted and exquisitely twisted... Julie Clark masterfully weaves together a daughter's long-held suspicions and her father's deadly secrets with the tragic events from the past. The Ghostwriter kept me turning pages in this suspenseful search for the truth." - Ashley Elston
"Beautifully written, utterly immersive and completely thrilling. A surefire hit." - Jo Spain
"Julie Clark is a master storyteller at the top of her game. The Ghostwriter is a richly layered family drama unspooling out of a dark history, as much a tale of a woman searching for connection with her enigmatic father as it is a brilliant mystery about a night of violence whose consequences echo into the present. Clark's books are always irresistibly plotted and expertly written, but The Ghostwriter, with its powerful emotional reckoning at the center, its father and daughter reaching for each other across time, takes it to a whole new level. This is a book to be devoured and then, in retrospect, savored. I loved everything about it." - Ashley Winstead
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