The Family Plot: A Novel

From Cherie Priest author of the enormously successful Boneshaker The Family Plot is a haunted house story for the agesatmospheric scary and strange with a modern gothic sensibility thats 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 hes thrilled when the aged and esteemed Augusta Withrow appears in his office. She has a massive family estate to unloadlock stock and barrel. For a check and a handshake its all his. Its a big check. Its a firm handshake. And its 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 waitingand 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. Its 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