On Thanksgiving
morning, Dixie Wheeler’s father killed her brothers and mother with
an ax before slitting his own throat. Seated in her highchair, Dixie
witnessed the whole thing, but at twenty-seven she still can’t
remember exactly what happened. Her life has been haunted by the
killings even as an adult she can’t quite believe her father could
have done such a thing.
In spite of her
mental health issues, Dixie is finally in a stable relationship with
Garrett. They’ve been living together and now plan for permanence
and want to buy a house. Although she knows she shouldn’t, Dixie
can’t help visiting one of the houses for sale. It’s the house
where her family was murdered. Against Garrett’s wishes, Dixie
moves into the house and furnishes it with all the furniture stored
by her aunt and uncle from the time of the murders.
Once she moves in,
strange things begin to happen. Are the ghosts of her family trying
to contact her, or is she losing her mind? The longer she lives in
the house the more she wonders if her father was the murderer. Now
she needs to revive the old case to find out.
The plot is a clever
twist on the murder of an entire family. However, be prepared for
plenty of blood from the prologue until the end. I didn’t mind it,
but it is rather violent. Dixie is a character it’s sometimes hard
to understand. She has a wry wit that is amusing, but at times her
mental state seems out of control.
I was disappointed
in the police investigation from the original murders. It seemed so
riddled with errors as to be unbelievable. It’s also fairly easy to
guess what happened, because there are so few living characters.
Still it’s an engrossing read.
I received this book
from Net Galley for this review.
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