I didn't even need to read the premise before requesting this book because Hendrix has become one of my auto-buy authors. I was sure I'd enjoy it regardless of the plot, and I wasn't disappointed.

The story is about Louise, a woman in her thirties, who receives the news that her parents have died in an accident. It's her brother Mark who breaks the news, and he does it in the most inconsiderate phone call you can imagine - their relationship has never been good and Mark comes across as unreliable and uncaring. Louise races to her childhood home to find out what happened and the tension of her sibling rivalry with Mark begins to unfold.

It's fraught with messy family history, and it's a Grady Hendrix book so you can rely on there being a supernatural element: the parents' house is haunted by a malevolent hand puppet from Louise's childhood. The puppet, Pupkin, is sinister and scary, and his dialogue is hilarious in an insanely creepy way - it really reminded me of a cross between two Stephen King characters: IT and Annie Wilks from Misery. I think I'll have the sing-song words 'COCK-A-WEE-WEE!' stuck in my head for a very long time. 

I really enjoyed this book and I thought the narrators were outstanding. There were parts that genuinely made my skin crawl because I'm a bit of a wimp!

Thank you to Netgalley UK for providing me with the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.