The Busy Body
Published on 5. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-4087-2065-3 (ISBN)
Description
'A hugely entertaining character who is wry, gossipy and completely
compelling. 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 HANNAH
How to put a positive spin on a murder mystery...
Meet our narrator: witty, nosy, a professional weaver of lies - aka ghostwriter for the rich
and famous - and now, lander of The Dream Assignment (that is, a politician's tell-all
memoir).
Enter Dorothy Gibson: recently toppled Presidential C andidate, aka that woman, the most
talked-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 under
Suspicious 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...
compelling. 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 HANNAH
How to put a positive spin on a murder mystery...
Meet our narrator: witty, nosy, a professional weaver of lies - aka ghostwriter for the rich
and famous - and now, lander of The Dream Assignment (that is, a politician's tell-all
memoir).
Enter Dorothy Gibson: recently toppled Presidential C andidate, aka that woman, the most
talked-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 under
Suspicious 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...
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
232 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4087-2065-3 (9781408720653)
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Kemper Donovan is the host of All About Agatha, a highly successful podcast dedicated to the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, and the inspiration behind The Busy Body. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, he worked at the literary management company Circle of Confusion for a decade before transitioning to writing full time. Kemper's first novel, The Decent Proposal, was a national bestseller. He is a member of the New York Bar Association, PEN America and Mystery Writers of America. Kemper has dual US and Irish citizenship and lives with his husband and daughters in Los Angeles. The Busy Body is the first book in The Ghostwriter Series.