The Ghost Writer

I don’t read detective stories, but one day I read Alice Basso. And now… I still don’t read detective stories, but I read Alice Basso.

— Goodreads

Silvana Sarka is a chameleon. She masterfully imitates the character, style, and quirks of other people, which makes it so easy for her to write books for them—and earn a living that way. But somewhere in the shadows there’s the real Vanja—a sarcastic loner with a complicated temperament and hatred for the whole world.

Life gives her a new assignment: Silvana will have to use her talent to take the place of a kidnapper and find a popular writer she used to work with. And this time, no one will write the plot for her. Literature is her job. Books are her passion. Only she doesn’t know that it might save someone’s life.

CAMBERBETCH HOLMES IN A SKIRT + A sarcastic main heroine-loner + One of the very best series of Italian detective novels + A trend for books about books