The Family Plot by Megan Collins

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Exceedingly entertaining. -The New York Times Umbrella Academy meets Tana French. Dark, claustrophobic, and beautifully written. -Andrea Bartz, author of We Were Never Here From the author of The Winter Sister and Behind the Red Door, a family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch-only to find another body already in his grave. At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse is haunted by her upbringing. Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents, she is unable to move beyond the disappearance of her twin brother, Andy, when they were sixteen. After several years away and following her father's death, Dahlia returns to the house, where the family makes a gruesome discovery: buried in their father's plot is another body-Andy's, his skull split open with an ax. Dahlia is quick to blame Andy's murder on the serial killer who terrorized the island for decades, while the rest of her family reacts to the revelation in unsettling ways.

  • Product Features

    • Author - Megan Collins
    • Publisher - Atria Books
    • Publication Date - 03-29-2022
    • Page Count - 320
    • Paperback
    • Adult
    • Mystery and Thriller
    • Product Dimensions - 5.31 H x 8.25 W x 0.8 D
    • ISBN-13 - 9781982163853
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4 years ago
from B&N Home Office

Just kind of family is this?!?!?

It's one thing to put a bunch of strangers in a room and ask "who done it?" It's entirely another to do that with a whole family! What's that saying about "keep your friends closer but your enemies closer"? What about family? Well - the whole way we wonder who stands where and why on the murders. Everyone is a suspect, in their own weird way. I loved the way Megan Collins brought us to the conclusion !

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3 years ago
from boonies

Clever Family Drama

I loved the Addams Family as a kid, and so a weird family in a dark house is right up my alley. A solid atmospheric mystery and easy read, with stronger characters than typically found in suspense/mystery stories. What's really enjoyable is all of the true crime callouts, down to the children's names and various tropes deployed in the narrative. Let's just hope no family out there is truly like this one.

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3 years ago
from Clarkston, Michigan

Barnes and Noble rec fail

Love true crime podcasts, dark and strange family tales, and with the dedication to the “ murderinos” as an added bonus, I was truly excited to read this. The author did a very nice job of options for the culprit, and the final solved murder was a left turn, however the entire family premise was asinine. I just could not get over how the children were brought up, it made zero sense. Could have used more character development for the father, and recommending simply therapy for the older brother as a resolution? Disturbing all around.

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3 years ago
from Florida

Dark Family Thriller

Thank you to Atria and Netgalley for an advanced readers copy of this book in return for my honest review. The Family Plot is a dark and twisty family drama that lost a star for me because the ending was unsatisfactory in my opinion. I did enjoy Megan Collins' sweeping descriptions of the Pacific Northwest landscape. To me though the book was left a bit unfinished. There were some gaping holes I suppose the reader is left to fill in. Overall I liked the idea and the story but it lost me in the follow through. 3 stars.

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3 years ago
from Texas

Telling Not Showing

Dahlia is insupportable. There is no character development for any character. The story is told in the first person by Dahlia, who is annoying and insufferable. I kept wishing she would get hacked and someone else would take over the narration. If you're an experienced reader of mystery/crime/serial killers, you may want to skip it. I don't usually read this genre, but I knew who did what pretty quickly.

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3 years ago
from Sarasota, FL

I really liked it

I very much enjoyed this book. Flew through it and really didn't want to put it down. I loved the mix of the family dynamic - you kind of felt like you were in "Knives Out". I don't think in most thrillers you really feel embedded with the characters, but this you felt like you were in the house with them. It had that classic connection you get with books that end up being a series, but also a thriller - when sometimes you just want to know the end.

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3 years ago

Dark and twisted

Can’t say I would agree with the way things played out in the end. For awhile I was guessing who did it! Family is a little out there and the way they present themselves is strange. Guess more understandable as the story progresses and you find out more. Honestly feel like the end should have been different, you’ll understand when you get there. Maybe it’s just me and my morals, but I don’t think many would do what they did. I couldn’t live with it. All in all it was a decent page turner and I would recommend it for a quick read.

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3 years ago
from Los Angeles

A lot of hype

This book was a big disappointment after reading the great reviews. I thought it was repetitive which made it long and boring, no real surprises or twists which could be the result of poor writing. Save your money.

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