Vanessa Keck

Y’all, Xavier Bradshaw: Ghost Writer turns investigative journalism into a blood-soaked game of “prove you’re innocent before you become tomorrow’s headline!” 📰🔪

Twenty years after brutal murders rocked Livingston, a city councilor is crucified and a young woman is found by the river. Reporter Xavier Bradshaw and his new partner, Jessi, investigate—but the evidence points straight at Xavier, while his horror-author mentor looks suspicious enough to make Stephen King nervous.

Xavier’s determination and growing paranoia give him grit, while W.M. Leesman’s sharp, atmospheric writing keeps identity, control, and suspicion twisting together like barbed wire. Dark, tense, and cleverly unsettling—a gripping four-star crime thriller!

Y’all, this sneak peek came creeping in like a ghost and left me wanting the whole haunting! Detectives Jenkins and Barrientos are hunting a mysterious kingpin with no photos, records, or digital footprint—a criminal who may not even exist. J.B. Arnold builds the intrigue fast, and although this was only a tantalizing taste, it absolutely hooked me. I’m ready to see what’s hiding behind that veil! 👀🐺