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The Family Upstairs: A Novel

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 None of This Is True 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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I would give this book 3.5 stars. It was good, but felt like it was missing something. At the end maybe it just didnât quite feel thriller enough.
I received a galley of this book from Atria Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This is only my second Lisa Jewell book but it has left me wanting to go back and read more from her. She definitely packed this story with all the right elements... a dysfunctional family, an odd and eerie mansion in Chelsea, a creepy cult, shady unstable characters, multiple murders, told on dual timelines with three POVs... yâall, itâs a lot! I donât think this is the most believable read, but I donât read thrillers for the ordinary or the expected. This is not a frightening suspenseful book; It is a carefully crafted whodunnit that kept me up late at night following the breadcrumb trail to figure out the truth. I do have a few small complaints about the ending, but I think that's just my preference and I don't want to spoil it for you! Regardless, I still enjoyed the book and see Lisa Jewell as another reliable author for a great read!
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I really enjoyed the plot to this and it had a couple of good twists and turns; I look forward to reading the next instalment and catching up with the characters again.
This Lisa Jewell thriller had the right combination of interesting characters and plot twists. The Family Upstairs weaves three different storylines- the present Libby who is trying to understand her past, Lucy whoâs life is a mess, and Henry who is telling the back story. Would be a great book club pick as thereâs lots to discuss.
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