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Family Business

By: Jonathan Sims
Narrated by: Jonathan Sims, Rachel Petladwala
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A bone-chilling horror from the acclaimed writer of THIRTEEN STOREYS and hit horror podcast THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES

JUST ANOTHER DEAD-END JOB.

DEATH. IT'S A DIRTY BUSINESS.

When Diya Burman's best friend Angie dies, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Wanting a fresh start, she joins Slough & Sons - a family firm that cleans up after the recently deceased.

Old love letters. Porcelain dolls. Broken trinkets. Clearing away the remnants of other people's lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things. Things that get harder and harder to write off as merely her grieving imagination. All is not as it seems with the Slough family. Why won't they speak about their own recent loss? And who is the strange man that keeps turning up at their jobs?

If Diya's not careful, she might just end up getting buried under the family tree. . .

©2022 Jonathan Sims (P)2022 Gollancz
Family Life Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Haunted Scary Paranormal Suspense

Critic Reviews

"Combines a creeping sense of unease with all-out gore... Nerve-jangling." (Guardian)

"A wonderfully creepy climax, hitting that perfect spot of uncanny horror." (Grimdark Magazine)

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I found the beginning a little slow. But I really like the second half. It was pretty predictable but that’s not a bad thing and I liked that everything felt earned.

As someone who has been going through my own bundles of grief vs moving on, i think the book has left me some interesting questions to unpack.

Pretty decent

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