Death Comes for the Critic — Noreen Wald

DEATH IMITATES Art

A summer in the sun has sent ghostwriter Jake O'Hara out of her beach house and into the poorhouse. But help is about to come from an unlikely place. Acerbic book critic Richard Peter, voted the man most Americans love to hate, has written himself into a corner by accepting a whopping advance for a murder mystery he can't deliver. With his publisher on the warpath, Peter's willing to share a generous slice of the pie with a discreet wordsmith like Jake. The problem is, plenty of people would love to stab Peter in the back. And before long, one of them does--literally.

Now Manhattan's gutsiest ghostwriter is left ghosting for the dead--and chasing down clues to a murder that hasn't seen its final chapter...