Every screenwriter knows the best stories come from the truth…
But the truth can be terrifying
Marnie thought she’d left behind her days of writing ‘celebrity’ tell-all memoirs, but when her big break as a screenwriter turns to dust she’s forced to take another ghost writing job.
Except this time it’s for someone who is actually famous. Or rather, infamous. Blythe Hopper. A reclusive former Hollywood star who recently murdered her screenwriter husband.
And Marnie has her own reasons for wanting to meet Blythe, not least because of an email she received from Blythe’s husband, sent two days after he was shot dead.
But Marnie soon learns Blythe is not a woman to be messed with.
Dark secrets lurk at the Hoppers’ palatial London home – secrets long buried, which Marnie is determined to unearth. At any price.
Because this isn’t just about Blythe’s past.
It’s about Marnie’s too.
Amanda Reynolds is the bestselling psychological suspense author whose debut novel, Close To Me, was adapted as a major six-part TV series for Channel 4 in 2021. Previously published by Headline,
her books have been translated into multiple languages. Amanda lives near Cheltenham.
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My thoughts: her career in a bit of a rut, Marnie accepts a job ghostwriting the memoir of a former Hollywood star, who has confessed to shooting her husband dead.
But Marnie also has an agenda, the dead man emailed her, after he died, hinting at knowledge of her own mystery. What happened to her mum?
Blythe’s house is a pit, nothing is clean, there’s just the somewhat unhinged actor, who never really eats, and her so-called business manager Ludo, who is another person with secrets.
As Marnie attempts to squeeze information out of the odd pair, and find out her own answers, she starts to feel quite frightened, Blythe is clearly unwell and her current legal issues are adding to all her other problems. Will Marnie survive her stay at The Towers?
Full of twists and surprises, this is a dark and sinister summer behind the high walls of a mysterious mansion.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.
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