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.Īfter fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy, Lucy Lamb is finally coming home.

Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock-news that her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. 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.

( From the publisher.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to The Family Upstairs.Įarly one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. 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. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom.ĭownstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying.

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. 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.Įverything in Libby’s life is about to change. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. From author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

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