When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn't want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn't want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father's academic career and her mother's lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn't want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Mostly, she doesn't want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. But she'll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it'll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
Some houses don't want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them...
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Louise thought it might not go well, so she told her parents she was pregnant over the phone, from three thousand miles away, in San Francisco.- CHAPTER 1
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(@TitanBooks, 17 January 2023, e-book, 400 pages, copy from the publisher via @ NetGalley)
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I loved How To Sell A Haunted House. I love horror and haunted houses so this was winner for me. I've read a lot of books about haunted houses; I mean A LOT. I loved how this book tries to do something new with a well-worn genre. I loved the intense relationship between Louise and Mark and how they hate each other until horrific events force them to find and admit common ground. Dolls and puppets are creepy and downright terrifying in this book. I found some humour in the darkness. I loved this a lot.
