The Busy Body

A hugely entertaining character who is wry, gossipy and completelycompelling. 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 HANNAHHow to put a positive spin on a murder mystery… Meet our narrator: witty, nosy, a professional weaver of lies – aka ghostwriter for the richand famous – and now, lander of The Dream Assignment (that is, a politician’s tell-allmemoir). Enter Dorothy Gibson: recently toppled Presidential C andidate, aka that woman, the mosttalked-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 underSuspicious 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…