What really happened June 1975 in Ojai? A new thriller from NYT Bestselling Julie Clark
A struggling ghostwriter is hired to finish her legendary father’s last book – a story that will finally force him to tell the truth about the murders that have haunted their family for years.
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 older brother and younger sister in in 1975. Olivia is on the brink of financial ruin when she’s called back to Ojai to ghostwrite her father’s last book. With no other jobs on the horizon, Olivia accepts, assuming it's her father's next horror novel. What she doesn't know, though, is that she will be forced to reckon with her father and the ghosts that live at the center of her family.
Because after fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about that night in 1975.
Julie Clark is the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight. It has earned starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal, and the New York Times has called it “thoroughly absorbing”. It’s been named an Indie Next Pick, a Library Reads Pick, and a Best Book of 2020 by Amazon Editors and Apple Books. Her debut, The Ones We Choose, was published in 2018 and has been optioned for television by Lionsgate. She lives in Los Angeles with her two sons and a golden doodle with poor impulse control.
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Praise for The Ghostwriter
"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, #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Lie Wins
"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, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things, Watch Me Disappear, and All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
"Beautifully written, utterly immersive and completely thrilling. A surefire hit." — Jo Spain, author of The Perfect Lie and Dirty Little Secrets
"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, author of The Castaways, The Hike, and One of the Girls
"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, author of The Hunting Wives and All the Little Houses
"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, national bestselling author of Midnight is the Darkest Hour
"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, New York Times bestselling author of Summers at the Saint and The Homewreckers
"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, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me and The Night We Lost Him