INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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âRich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.â âRuth Ware, New York Times bestselling author
âA haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read.â âMegan 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 familyâs 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 sheâs 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 Londonâs fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libbyâs life is about to change. But what she canât possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as wellâand 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 âbone-chilling suspenseâ (People) brings us the canât-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.
Inge
11/11/2022
Some parts are great.
Amy
28/07/2022
3.5 stars for me, overall story beyond average and plot was a good 4.25 stars to me. Well this book pleasantly surprised me. Throughout the story Henryâs story time was the only one that kept me entertained as I found the others to be boring and confusing. It wasnât until the last couple chapters (about 2 hours left) that it started to get realllly good. I actually do find it to have a psychologically thrilling ending.
Shadira
13/06/2021
THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS employs multiple narrators to tell this intricate story, and itâs entirely to Jewellâs credit that each of these narrators bears equal weight and carries equal entertainment value. I never found myself wishing to skip through any of these charactersâ chapters; each is developed thoughtfully and authentically, each narrator carrying with him or her enough secrets and intrigue to constantly keep the reader wanting more. THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS is as much a story about people as it is about the house that connects them all. In a âpastâ timeline infused with touches of Gothic suspense, Jewell traces the history of the house Libby has just inherited.. And as past and present collide, readers will be riveted to see how Libbyâs fate connects to and will forever be defined by the history held within this mansionâs walls. THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS is as ambitious as anything Iâve read this year, and it delivers in a big way. Through twists and turns, shocks and reveals, Jewell never loses sight of her storyâs biggest question: can you ever be free of your past? THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS explores familial inheritance - the good, the bad, and the downright deadly - in a dark and engrossing story of psychological suspense As Jewell (Watching You, 2018, etc.) moves back and forth from the past to the present, the narratives move swiftly toward convergence in her signature style.