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.

This book contains mentions of sexual assault.

What’s scarier than murder? In The Ghostwriter, it just might be the crushing weight of carrying a dark, lifelong family secret—or several. This haunting thriller simmers with several decades’ worth of tension that’s about to boil over.

Olivia has spent her whole life hiding the fact that her estranged father was once accused of murdering his siblings. But when she is assigned to ghostwrite his final, autobiographical book, she is drawn back into the web of mystery surrounding that fateful summer many years before. Is her father finally ready to confess to the murders—or does he know who was really guilty?

The Ghostwriter is a thriller at the absolute top of its game: compelling character development, an evocative southern California setting, and a creeping mood of unease that had me checking outside my windows and under my bed. If your ideal evening is one spent frantically turning pages with a shiver of dread running down your spine, this is exactly the book you’ve been looking for.