The Family Upstairs: A Novel

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK

"Rich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect." --Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author

"A haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read." --Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family's past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.

She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's life is about to change. But what she can't possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well--and she is on a collision course to meet them.

Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.

In The Family Upstairs, the master of "bone-chilling suspense" (People) brings us the can't-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.
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352 pages

Average rating: 7.47

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trinabean724
Mar 19, 2024
8/10 stars
This book was difficult to follow at first. I listened to the audio while reading. The book has three main POVs.
bookswithbre
Feb 22, 2024
10/10 stars
An interesting turn of events from a twisted family.
JHSiess
Feb 03, 2024
8/10 stars
Lisa Jewell delivers an atmospheric, dark, and disturbing thriller about menacing power, decades-old secrets, guilt, and one woman's desire to understand her own history and get to know the family she never realized existed.

As The Family Upstairs opens, Libby, who was adopted when she was ten months old, receives a letter she has known would be en route to her when she reached her twenty-fifth birthday. And she learns that she has inherited the h...read more
Jenn S
Jan 19, 2024
6/10 stars
The first part of the book was a bit slow for me…but I’m glad I stuck with it. I enjoyed the varying POV & was satisfied with the ending.
e11einad
Jan 14, 2024
6/10 stars
It was a page turner, but I wasn't satisfied with the ending. TW:SA

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