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Name: The Ghost Writer

Author: John Harwood
Year: 2004
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Genres/categories: Horror, Suspense, Mystery, Fantasy, Paranormal

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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
A tantalizing tale of family secrets hidden in spine-tingling ghost stories - that have started to come true.

Growing up in a small Australian town, Gerard Freeman loves to hear his mother talk about her idyllic childhood in an English country manor. But she swears that she will never return to England, and refuses to tell him what happened to her family, though she is clearly terrified of some invisible yet ever-present threat. One hot afternoon, he waits until she is napping, then creeps into her bedroom to break open the drawer that's always locked, the one that he hopes holds all her secrets....

Twenty years later, Gerard has not left home - he works as a librarian - but he lives for just two things: his English penfriend Alice, for whom he yearns with all his heart, and the ghost story he found in his mother's drawer all those years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at the terrible crime that haunted his mother, and, finally, destroyed her. And as Viola's chilling tales lead him to London, Gerard realizes that the stories might hold the key to finding Alice as well as unveiling his family's mystery - or are they leading him directly to the untimely death they seem to foretell?


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