Family Business
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…
“A story about keeping secrets and remembering loved ones, told in a plain, unfussy style whose groundedness makes the book’s unfolding sense of dread all the more tangible.”
The Financial Times
“A great Halloween read I found difficult to put down. A realistic setting, with likeable characters and some genuinely icky and creepy moments along the way”
SFF World
“A triumph, thriving on relatable fears, hyper-realistic dirty homes, and understandable grief. This novel has the momentum of a train with no breaks”
The Fantasy Hive
Thirteen Storeys
A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are strangers – even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building.
None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation. Whether privileged or deprived, they share only one thing in common – they’ve all experienced a shocking disturbance within the building’s walls.
By the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests will say what happened.
His death has remained one of the biggest unsolved mysteries – until now.
But are you ready for their stories?
“This is an astonishing debut from Jonathan Sims. A wonderful new twist on an age-old genre. 5 out of 5.”
SFX
“The book works both as a collection of inventive horror stories and as a cohesive novel, building to a nerve-jangling finale that reveals the shocking events at the party.”
The Guardian
“A modern horror classic from one of the most exciting writers in the field today.”
Starburst Magazine
Jonathan Sims 