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<p><b>Set in the South of France, a fiendishly clever thriller about the back-stabbing literary world, from the bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series of prize-winning historical novels.</b><br> <br> <b>Robert Harris's THE GHOST meets Patricia Highsmith<br></b><br> If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research... or pay someone else to do it for you.<br> <br> In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.<br> <br> Houston is the world's most successful thriller writer, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of bestselling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books.<br> <br> And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind those books has some questions for him too...</p>