The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell

About the book: 

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.

Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. 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.

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

After fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy, Lucy Lamb is finally coming home. While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first-ever house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present.

As they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they will come to find that they’re connected in ways they could have never imagined.

In this masterful standalone sequel to her haunting New York Times bestseller, The Family Upstairs, Lisa Jewell proves she is writing at the height of her powers with another jaw-dropping, intricate, and affecting novel about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love and uncover the truth. 

MY THOUGHTS 

 It’s official!!! You are AWESOME!! This book is on 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Thank you so much @atriabooks @atriathrillers for putting this in my hands!! Pub date is right around the corner!! Out August 9th!!! 🥳🥳

I LOVED The Family Upstairs so much when I read it last month… yes I was late to the game… 🤫…I couldn’t wait to see what happened to our little family next… 😳 If you remember how the last book ended.. you will know why I was anxiously awaiting..😏

Dark..sinister… twisted… the gang is back! Lucy…Libby…Phin…Henry.. Rachel… Birdie 😳😳😳

Let’s just say @lisajewelluk absolutely KILLED it!!👏👏👏 On my Top 10 of the year? ABSOLUTELY!!! 😍 Look 👀… if you aren’t a slacker like me… and you read The Family Upstairs when it came out… no worries… @lisajewelluk does an excellent job of refreshing your memory!! 😉 If you haven’t read it.. well …🤔…sure this could be read as a stand alone.. but The Family Upstairs was so flipping good that I highly suggest doing what I did and binge both!!!

Okay can you tell I Loved it?? 😂 I am now a fan girl 👱‍♀️…I am running 🏃‍♀️ out to get her backlist!! I currently have The Night She Disappeared and can’t wait to read it!! 😍

❤️❤️❤️ Are you excited to read this one? If not… you should be!!! 😂 What is your favorite @lisajewelluk book?? Did you read The Family Upstairs?

LISA JEWELL was born in London in 1968.

Her first novel, Ralph's Party, was the best- selling debut novel of 1999. Since then she has written another twenty novels, most recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls, Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs and The Night She Disappeared.

Lisa is a New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two teenage daughters and the best dog in the world.