Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Publication date: June 3, 2025
Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley for the e-arc! Put this one on your tbr now because you’re definitely going to want to read it!
Synopsis: The Taylor family shatters in a single night in June 1975 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 one has it all- unreliable characters, a writer trying to rebuild her career, family drama, secrets galore, and two 50 year-old unsolved murders that devastated one family. As Olivia tries to untangle her father’s jumbled memories, she’s plunged into the mystery of the fateful night her uncle and aunt were killed when then were teens. Author Julie Clark does a fantastic job peeling back the layers of this complex plot. The narrative features multiple POVs and Clark seamlessly combines the past and the present to give readers a story filled with plenty of twists and turns. The main characters are complex. Vincent was the brooding middle child. His older brother was popular and liked by everyone. His younger sister was spirited and artistic. Just about everyone suspected Vincent of murdering his siblings. Olivia reluctantly reunites with her father out of desperation. She had a rocky relationship with him growing up. Her father became consumed with his career, drowned his emotions in a bottle, and usually neglected her. When Olivia talks to her aunt’s and uncle’s friends from that time period she realizes their memories differ from the picture her father has painted. Is his dementia distorting his memories or is he hiding something?
This is a taut and gripping mystery that pulled me in from start to finish. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don’t miss this one publishing June 3.
QOTD: what are you reading this weekend?
I’m reading the e-arc of The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers.
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About the Author
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. It’s been named an Indie Next Pick, a Library ReadsPick, and a Best Book of 2020 by Amazon Editors and Apple Books. She lives in Los Angeles with her two sons and a golden doodle with poor impulse control.
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