The Family Plot

By Cherie Priest

Book Overview

From Cherie Priest, author of the enormously successful Boneshaker , The Family Plot is a haunted house story for the ages--atmospheric, scary, and strange, with a modern gothic sensibility that's every bit as fresh as it is frightening. 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. Other Books Boneshaker Button Man and the Murder Tree, The Dreadnought Fathom Fiddlehead Four and Twenty Blackbirds Ganymede Inexplicables, The Not Flesh Nor Feathers Wings to the Kingdom

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765378248
• ISBN13: 9780765378248
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

I enjoyed this spooky book. It was a good yarn and I couldn't guess the ending of it. I would definitely read this author again. I thought the plot original.

Really good supernatural suspense story

Anyone wanting to read a book with a spooky atmosphere including a haunted house, good plot, little mystery, and a very relatable protagonist, should read this book. The last third of the book had me in it's grips just wanting to know what the outcome was going to be. Loved it!

Spooky, atmospheric, well-told Haunted House Story

Read this book over a year ago and it’s stuck with me. Well told Southern Ghost story. Priest does an excellent job of building dread and setting a scene. A haunted house, an angry spirit and a no-nonsense protagonist. I thoroughly enjoyed being creeped out.