I was sucked into this macabre book from the first page. It’s like The Addams Family meets true crime television. It contains all the elements to draw a reader in. A mother’s obsessive grief leads her to actions that scar her family forever, leaving them dysfunctional on many levels. She homeschools them with a curriculum of her own devising: true crime. Stir in a secluded existence on a gloomy atmospheric island in a home called “Murder Mansion” by the locals, the disappearance of the protagonist’s sixteen-year-old twin, and a series of unsolved murders by a serial killer, and you have the bare bones of The Family Plot.
The protagonist, twenty-six-year-old Dahlia, returns to her island home after her father’s death. When the grave is dug in the nearby family plot, a body is already there—and DNA testing proves it to be her missing twin who’d been struck in the head with an axe. Dahlia, to deal with her own grief, decides to find out who murdered her brother. Her endeavors reveal more than anyone in the family suspected and threaten to tear the family apart.
The Family Plot is definitely twisted, dark, macabre, and filled with juicy tidbits about true crime deaths. If you favor dark thrillers, this one will fill the bill.
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