The Ghostwriter

By (author) Clark Julie
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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.
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The brand-new 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.

''Expertly plotted and exquisitely 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?

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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
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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 favourite crime writers
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Intriguing and twisty
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Beautifully written, utterly immersive and completely thrilling. A surefire hit.
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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
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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.
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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
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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