The Busy Body

'A hugely entertaining character who is wry, gossipy and completely compelling. Full of twists and turns worthy of a classic mystery novel' ALEX MICHAELIDES, author of The Silent Patient 'Gripping . . . with a wonderful detective readers will be dying to meet again' SOPHIE HANNAH How to put a positive spin on a murder mystery... Meet our narrator: witty, nosy, a professional weaver of lies - aka ghostwriter for the rich and famous - and now, lander of The Dream Assignment (that is, a politician's tell-all memoir). Enter Dorothy Gibson: recently toppled Presidential C andidate, aka that woman, the most talked-about person in the country right now... for all the wrong reasons. Add -- an invitation to the middle of nowhere, one well-heeled neighbour dying under Suspicious C ircumstances, a secret investigation -- and an unreasonably beautiful man. The result -- a story even our ghostwriter wasn't expecting. And for once, it's all hers...

'A hugely entertaining character who is wry, gossipy and completely compelling. Full of twists and turns worthy of a classic mystery novel' ALEX MICHAELIDES, author of The Silent Patient 'Gripping . . . with a wonderful detective readers will be dying to meet again' SOPHIE HANNAH How to put a positive spin on a murder mystery... Meet our narrator: witty, nosy, a professional weaver of lies - aka ghostwriter for the rich and famous - and now, lander of The Dream Assignment (that is, a politician's tell-all memoir). Enter Dorothy Gibson: recently toppled Presidential C andidate, aka that woman, the most talked-about person in the country right now... for all the wrong reasons. Add -- an invitation to the middle of nowhere, one well-heeled neighbour dying under Suspicious C ircumstances, a secret investigation -- and an unreasonably beautiful man. The result -- a story even our ghostwriter wasn't expecting. And for once, it's all hers...