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Family Business
Family Business | Jonathan Sims
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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. . .
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OutsmartYourShelf
Family Business | Jonathan Sims
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Mehso-so

Based on the synopsis & cover I thought this was thriller rather than a horror, but right from the start, there's a current of the supernatural running through the story. The author does a good job of making the reader empathise with Diya's predicament & the sense of menace gradually builds. The main issue I found was with the pacing - the pacing was so very slow right up until the end, when it suddenly did a 180 & sped through the conclusion.

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 3y
Catsandbooks 🙌🏼☠️❤️ 3y
TheSpineView Fantastic 3y
OutsmartYourShelf I was left a little disappointed but it hasn't put me off reading more by the author, in fact I have 'Thirteen Storeys' in my TBR pile.

My thanks to NetGalley & publishers, Orion Publishing Group/Gollancz, for the opportunity to read an ARC. #NetGalley

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4916041976
3y
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