Jack Smyth has always maintained that he's innocent in the murders of his wife and her friend. A year ago, he was acquitted of them, thanks to his crack legal team, a prosecution out of their depth and a jury bored by technical detail but enamoured with him.
Now, a year on, he's signed a book deal. He wants to tell his side of the story. A ghostwriter, Emily , is drafted in to assist. She has her own secrets and soon, she begins to suspect that even on the pages of his own book, Jack is still trying to hide his...
What happens during the interview stage means that she can't produce the book she was hired to write, but Emily can still tell the truth about what she learned and what happened there, and the guilty secret she's been hiding until now. The Ghostwriter is her (supposedly) non-fictional account of her experience.
A clever, high-concept thriller about how the rich and famous get away with anything, even murder...