Book Blurb:
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.
My Review: 4 stars
The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark is an incredibly twisty mystery, that shifts between 1975 and current day as the reader tries to decipher who killed Vincent’s brother and sister. And yes, Vincent is also a suspect.
This one is told from three points of view and each of these narrators have such varied tales that it’s hard to put your trust in any of them. I was all in for these unreliable narrators as I tried to figure out who killed Vincent’s brother and sister. Vincent is now an old man and a bestselling mystery writer who corners his estranged daughter Olivia, to be a ghostwriter for his final book. He wants to put the truth out about everything that happened the night his two siblings, Poppy and Danny were murdered. Unfortunately, while Olivia goes digging into her father’s past, it only brings up more questions that can’t always be answered due Vincent’s Lewy Body Dementia. Couple that with the secrets she unearths from his journals, and we’ve got ourselves a dang good mystery.
I’m being vague with this review because it’s better to to just dive in rather than know any more about the mystery. Definitely check out this author’s back log of books. They’re all good!
Quotes I liked:
Information is power, yes. But it’s also a burden because once you know something, you can’t pretend you don’t.”
“You can’t erase the past by not thinking about it.”
