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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.



3.9

260 beoordelingen

Inge

11-11-2022

Some parts are great.

Amy

28-7-2022

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 Henry’s story time was the only one that kept me entertained as I found the others to be boring and confusing. It wasn’t 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

13-6-2021

THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS employs multiple narrators to tell this intricate story, and it’s entirely to Jewell’s 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 characters’ 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 “past” 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 Libby’s fate connects to and will forever be defined by the history held within this mansion’s walls. THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS is as ambitious as anything I’ve read this year, and it delivers in a big way. Through twists and turns, shocks and reveals, Jewell never loses sight of her story’s 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.