Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Ghostwriter in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: June 3, 2025
Summary:
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.
My thoughts:
As soon as I heard about this book & and saw the cover, I knew I had to read it, and I was not disappointed. I am a big fan of this author and love how consistently she delivers with her psychological thrillers. While this one is more of a slow-burn compared to the other two, it is equally as addicting a read and I found myself completely caught up in the story right from the start.
I loved that this book explores a father-daughter relationship in such a unique yet totally powerful and emotional way. It’s a very complex, layered story, and one that I totally see myself rereading at some point just to make sure I caught everything. I mean, there is family dysfunction here for sure, but I loved the way it is unpacked!
This book is full of secrets and I loved how they were slowly discovered, leaving you questioning whether you have been told the truth or have been deceived by unreliable narrators all along. Between the cold case, the moving back and forth in time, the old house…this story really had a hold over me & as atmospheric and haunting as it was, I could not put it down.
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