The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

March’s read was heavy and atmospheric with an interesting storyline.

I loved the book’s California setting and enjoyed Poppy’s 1970’s feminist views.

But what I didn’t love was an ending that wasn’t absolutely clear.

I think the author left it up to the reader to determine who killed Danny and Poppy.

Here’s what I think happened:

I think Mr. Stewart killed Poppy after she learned that he was abusing Danny.

Then Danny finds Poppy as she’s dying, then Vincent comes in and believes Danny killed Poppy.

The two fight and Vincent gets knocked out.

When Vincent wakes up, Danny is dead.

That’s when Lydia comes into the room; believes Danny killed Poppy (and thinks Vincent is dead too) so she kills Danny.

Vincent eventually wakes up, realizes what happened (Lydia killed Danny) and vows to protect her.

I give this book a 3.5.

WHAT GOODREADS SAYS: “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.”