Book Review: The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
“Put them all in the ground. Plant the seeds, and harvest the ghosts.” 📚 Music City Salvage sells old things and strips condemned historic properties. But times are tough, so when venerable Augusta Withrow of the esteemed Withrow clan stops by offering to unload her entire estate “for a check and a handshake,” owner Chuck Dutton can’t afford to resist and assigns his daughter, Dahlia, to supervise the project. What she and her crew find is more than they bargained for: a building in great shape; empty, but far from abandoned and seething with supernatural rage. The Family Plot is fantastic. From the get-go, the stakes are sky-high: a family business on the brink of insolvency takes a huge gamble on one final expensive but potentially lucrative job, an investment that turns out to be much different than they anticipate. Unease permeates the to-good-to-be-true offer; there’s something the seller isn’t saying. The last of the Withrows, she can’t wait to see the 4,500-square-foot home — ...
.jpg)