The Ghostwriter

By Julie Clark and Julie Clark

Book Overview

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

DELUXE FIRST EDITION WITH PRINTED EDGES

"Deftly and engagingly delves into this complicated not-so-cold case." --The New York Times

"Expertly plotted and exquisitely twisted." --Ashley Elston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Lie Wins

From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell comes a dazzling new thriller.

June, 1975.

The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets.

Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she's offered a job to ghostwrite her father's last book. What she doesn't know, though, is that this project is another one of his lies. Because it's not another horror novel he wants her to write.

After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464221286
• ISBN13: 9781464221286
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Truth and lies woven together

This was a twisty, deeply emotional story of a daughter, Olivia, traveling back to her father, a famous author, to be a ghostwriter for his memoir as he is suffering from Lewy Body dementia and cannot finish it. You get the emotions between those two, plus a whole bunch more as Olivia goes digging deep into the past with the murders of Poppy, and Danny, fifty years ago, never solved. This book has it all, twists, darkness, dysfunctional families, treasure hunts both in the past and present, and light shown into the past actions of people who have buried it so deeply they have forgotten the real past, or have had disease wipe it from their minds. I loved how it was slowly unraveled as Olivia wrote the book, Vincent being both a help and hindrance and her own journey with the trials of being a ghostwriter and standing up for truth, despite it costing her so much. I admired her and how the truth mattered the most, even if it might turn out to make her father a murderer. It does get pretty dark, with incidents that are awful and when it is all revealed, the truth is even worse than the rumors but it completes the story well. Woven in with it is the journey of Olivia, her struggles against a world determined to silence her and her reconnection with her father. Lots of emotions and a really good book!