The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!
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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.
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I do love a good thriller. And I have come to love the kind of thriller that Julie Clark writes. Told in dual timelines, this book takes us from the modern day, when Olivia is trying to get to the root of a long-ago mystery while recapturing her career as a ghostwriter, to half a century ago, when her father's life and that of his family fell apart. It is full of twists and turns, and while I had my suspicions about who the bad guy might actually be, I really was kept guessing right up until the very end. I loved how the relationship between Olivia and her father unfolded, and I enjoyed every page of this fast-paced novel. This was the kind of book that you will want to read in one sitting, and I can say that with confidence because that is exactly what I did today!

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