Ghost Writer

"Gerard's investigation of his mother's past takes him deep into a thicket of fact, fiction and lies that might be someone's attempt to hide her guilt, but might also be a trap. Harwood's plot is intricate--it may leave you puzzling out the finer points of the various twists on your own after you follow it breathlessly to its conclusion--but what lingers are Viola's tales. Some are more inventive than others....But all of them have a hypnotic quality that oozes out beyond the solid structure of Harwood's plot and in the end envelops it. By the last page, all the loose ends have been tied up, but that aura of the uncanny still clings to everything. As with all the best ghost stories, you're left feeling that the truth about what happened can never finally be pinned down."Harwood, John is the author of 'Ghost Writer', published 2005 under ISBN 9780156032322 and ISBN 0156032325.