The Family Plot

I have to admit I read this months ago (& forgot to review it) yet it still stays with me. I loved Megan's Behind the Red Door, so I knew I had to read The Family Plot.

The Lighthouse family takes crime-lover obsession to a whole other level, with each of the Lighthouse kids named after murder victims. In their island home, dubbed Murder Manor by the locals, the kids are homeschooled, with their education pretty much consisting of studying true crime stories and murder. This, of course, only adds to the rumors and mysteriousness surrounding the family in their small island community.

Dahlia and her twin brother, Andy, were set to leave just before their 16th birthday, but Andy disappears just before, so Dahlia leaves without him. When she returns 10 years later, after the death of her father, she's shocked to learn that Andy was killed years ago, his body found in her father's plot, his skull split open by an ax. Gone for all these years and she never knew...

Creeping, dark, chilling, and haunting best describe this story. Incredibly unique plot and nothing like anything I've read before! A page-turner that I couldn't put down and so spooky, I couldn't get it out of my head! A highly recommended, fabulous book about one family's unexpected history and gruesome secrets.