Publication Date: June 3, 2025
DELUXE FIRST EDITION WITH PRINTED EDGES!
“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, #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.
Long-buried childhood questions surface when a man decides to break his 50-year-silence regarding the murder of his siblings.
However, his revelations must unfold through the hands of his estranged daughter, Olivia. Author Julie Clark delivers an intricate story of family relationships in The Ghostwriter.
An esteemed author, Vincent Taylor, essentially checked out in parenting his daughter, Olivia. Deserted by her mother, all Olivia wants is to get far away, which she accomplished by moving overseas and later building a career as a ghostwriter.
Facing financial challenges, she reluctantly accepts the offer to collaborate with her father. However, returning to her hometown opens plenty of old wounds, especially when she discovers her father is an unreliable narrator.
The story unfolds as Olivia sifts through her father’s memories, alternating with perspectives from the past. Did Vincent get away with murdering his siblings? What exactly happened that fateful night?
Secrets can cripple relationships, even when the key to unlocking them rests in the mind of a man in the throes of dementia.
The Ghostwriter takes readers on a suspenseful quest for the truth.
Julie Clark is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lies I Tell and The Last Flight, both of which were also #1 international bestsellers and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her family and a goldendoodle with poor impulse control.
