The Family Remains: A Novel

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Other authors are at a ten out of ten, for me, and Lisa is a solid hundred." --Gillian McAllister, The Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell weaves a "simply masterful" (Samantha Downing, internationally bestselling author) thriller about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this stand-alone sequel to The Family Upstairs.

Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.

Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock--her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn't want to answer.

After fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy, Lucy Lamb is finally coming home. While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present.

As they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they will come to find that they're connected in ways they could have never imagined.

In this masterful standalone sequel to her haunting New York Times bestseller The Family Upstairs, "Lisa Jewell is a superb writer at the top of her game" (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) with another jaw-dropping, intricate, and affecting novel about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love and uncover the truth.

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400 pages

Average rating: 7.18

226 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Anonymous
Nov 07, 2024
6/10 stars
I have had this on my TBR list for quite a while now so I finally got to read it. Um....I am not quite sure what to say about The Family Remains. I think maybe one of my mistakes was not reading The Family Upstairs first. I really did not enjoy this book as well as I have enjoyed others by Lisa Jewell. I felt a bit confused not really knowing who was who. The reason for no stars is because I don't feel it is fair to Lisa since I did not read the first book.
J♡reading
Sep 02, 2024
4/10 stars
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Shahna
Jul 18, 2024
6/10 stars
Rachel = useless - could not stop rolling my eyes at her dumbness
Why does everyone want to save Henry so much? He's awful.

There are still too many people. 3 stars is being generous.
Just because fans want another book doesn't mean you have to write one.

Why wouldn't you delete your nudes?
Why were the remains even moved if they were fine on the roof?
Why did no one EVER go to the police since originally leaving the house?
Why did Rachel not go to the frickin police? She's so dumb.
How did they get back into the country with fake passports if authorities were looking for them.
Stevie JM
Feb 20, 2024
9/10 stars
Excellent page turner
fluffyfloxxy
Nov 05, 2023
8/10 stars
This is better than the last book, fast paced and very entertaining to read

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