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. Lucy Lamb is living with her brother, Henry, after the two have been reunited, and she’s focused on reconnecting with her eldest daughter, Libby, and. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. Considerably.THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS is dark, multilayered, disturbing, and definitely done at the hands of a master storyteller.Here's the general plot: Libby Jones is twenty-five when she learns the identity of her birth parents and that she is the sole inheriter (is that a word) of a crumbling (abandoned) mansion in a very desirable. In this sequel to The Family Upstairs (2019), two siblings continue to deal with the fallout of their traumatic childhoods.

When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. 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. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. 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. 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. Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling authorįrom 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.

Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling authorĪ haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read. Rich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect. A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK

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