The Family Plot

 Welcome to my review of The Family Plot 

When a family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch, horrifying secrets are exposed upon the discovery of another body in his grave

 Rating 5 

NetGalley ARC

Genre : Suspense, Psychological thriller

My thoughts

Would I recommend it ? Yes

Would I read more by this author? Yes , because I've read her other 2 books The Winter Sister and Behind the Red Door and just like one they was both 5 star reads for me .

First off I  want to say a  huge  thank you to the publisher Atria Books- Simon & Schuster , the author Megan Collins and to NetGalley for inviting me read and review it, as soon as I saw it there was non ands , ifs or buts , no second guessing myself at all I knew that I was going to say yes because I love Megan Collins  and I knew that she would not let me down ,and she didn't , plus a big thank you to my friend Louise-Ellen for picking for me to read ( ok so let me explain what I mean by that , so I do this thing where I pick so many of my NetGalley ARCs, take a snapshot of them and then post them in one of my chats and then I let my friends pick 1 to 2 of them for me to read and she picked that one , which was a great choice to pick ). This book was everything I was hoping it would be and so much more , I loved how the author set the story up around true crime and a serial killer , plus I also loved how she named her characters after famous murder victims and ones I actually knew about, other one win was how the setting of the story give it a creepy and twisted atmosphere that brought it life even more so. So if your wanting a book that has a creepy and twisted atmosphere , secrets , and lies , an island that you just don't want to live on or even visit , then this is the one for you. 

At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse has a lot to learn when it comes to the real world. Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents, she has spent the last several years living on her own, but unable to move beyond her past—especially the disappearance of her twin brother Andy when they were sixteen.

With her father’s death, Dahlia returns to the house she has avoided for years. But as the rest of the Lighthouse family arrives for the memorial, a gruesome discovery is made: buried in the reserved plot is another body—Andy’s, his skull split open with an ax.

Each member of the family handles the revelation in unusual ways. Her brother Charlie pours his energy into creating a family memorial museum, highlighting their research into the lives of famous murder victims; her sister Tate forges ahead with her popular dioramas portraying crime scenes; and their mother affects a cheerfully domestic façade, becoming unrecognizable as the woman who performed murder reenactments for her children. As Dahlia grapples with her own grief and horror, she realizes that her eccentric family, and the mansion itself, may hold the answers to what happened to her twin.