What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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ABANDONED. Mystery involving ghostwriter in a town with a "Little House"-esque fan convention
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I don't think it's the Miss Prim one, but thanks! iirc, the fictional books were a series similar to the Little House series - nostalgic Americana-type, originally aimed at kids but with a large adult fan base (I seem to remember there being a character making some remark about all the grown women obsessed with kids' books). And I want to say the fictional author may have had some kind of connection with the old man whose memoir is being written, or a relative of his. Or something. x_x
Maybe, one of the "A Jersey Shore" mysteries? https://www.goodreads.com/series/4173...
The main character is a ghostwriter.
Was this part of a series?
Anything about the cover?
Was the main character's occupation ghostwriter, journalists, something else?
Doesn't look like any of those, but Death on the Prairie sounds interesting! I don't know if it was part of a series or anything from the cover, unfortunately. I *think* the MC was a writer or journalist, who was taking ghostwriting gigs on the side and was kind of uncomfortable/ashamed about it, but needed the money. I could be mixing that up with another book though...
Death on the Prairie does sound good, I plan on reading it soon.
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What's the Name of That Book???
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A writer arrives in a small town (maybe in Wisconsin?) having been hired to help write/ghostwrite an old man's memoir. I believe she has a teenage kid who does not come along but may visit later in the book (there may have been some bitterness over a custody argument?). There is a fan convention happening in the town for a book series by an author that used to live there (sort of loosely similar to real-world Laura Ingalls Wilder/Little House fan events). The writer is staying in a cottage/guest house next to the old man's house, and the cottage has some connection to the famous local author/convention subject, so fans keep coming around pestering to come inside and look around, take pictures, etc.
I don't really remember anything of the plot, but I'm pretty sure it was a mystery (murder or otherwise, I don't know - if it was a murder, I've no idea who got killed). The solution may have involved some kind of letters/notes or other artifact discovered in the guest cottage or among the old man's papers, possibly related to the famous local author.
Sorry to be so vague - any ideas?