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Family Plotby Cherri Priest
5 Stars
From The Book:
Music City Salvage is owned and operated by Chuck Dutton: master stripper of doomed historic properties and expert seller of all things old and crusty. Business is lean and times are tight, so he’s thrilled when the aged and esteemed Augusta Withrow appears in his office. She has a massive family estate to unload―lock, stock, and barrel. For a check and a handshake, it’s all his.
It’s a big check. It’s a firm handshake. And it’s enough of a gold mine that he assigns his daughter Dahlia to personally oversee the project. Dahlia and a small crew caravan down to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the ancient Withrow house is waiting―and so is a barn, a carriage house, and a small, overgrown cemetery that Augusta Withrow left out of the paperwork. Augusta Withrow left out a lot of things.
The property is in unusually great shape for a condemned building. It’s empty, but Dahlia and the crew quickly learn it is far from abandoned. There is still something in the Withrow mansion, something angry and lost, and this is its last chance to raise hell before the house is gone forever.
My Views:
Family Plot rates right up there along side
The House on Cold Hill
You know something creepy is going to happen from the time the salvage company buys the house contents and you begin to wait for it. It's introduced slowly and that helps to build for the finale. The characters were all good with their own individual personalities that were different but worked well together. Loved the book...and just wait for the ending. If you also love a good ghost story....may I suggest another of Cherrie Priest's spooky offerings, Four and Twenty Blackbirds. Leave the lights on...have the blanket handy to hide under...and enjoy.
