The Family Remains
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
4.1
(1.3K)
Lisa Jewell
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Other authors are at a ten out of ten, for me, and Lisa is a solid hundred.” —Gillian McAllister, The Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell weaves a “simply masterful” (Samantha Downing, internationally bestselling author) thriller about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this stand-alone 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—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 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 is a superb writer at the top of her game” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) with another jaw-dropping, intricate, and affecting novel about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love and uncover the truth.
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Author
Lisa Jewell
Pages
384
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2022-08-09
ISBN
1982178914 9781982178918
Ratings
Google: 5
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"The sequel to The Family Upstairs. I throughly enjoyed this. She did an amazing job of reminding the reader what happened in the first book, without giving the story away completely. Not as great as the first but it's still a brilliant sequel. I am just genuinely a fan of Lisa Jewell, if she writes it, I'll read it"
"This was a nice way to wrap up a really interesting story. I’m glad there was finally a sequel. My issue was not having read the Family Upstairs recently enough to have remembered some smaller details and characters. I found myself looking up summaries of the Family Upstairs several times to try and figure out what exactly I was missing to put the pieces together. If I could do it over, I would have re-read The Family Upstairs before reading this one. What confused me the most was that the 2017 storyline in the Family Remains happened before the “present day” storyline in the Family Upstairs. I read about half the book before I realized this, thinking everything happened after. Otherwise, a great sequel to such a sinister and disturbing story. "
"Good book. I enjoyed it even though I didn’t realize that it was a sequel to a book I hadn’t read."
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Stacy Yeckl
"Not a fan "
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Brandi Carson
"I started this book without realizing it was a sequel to The Family Upstairs, then when I realized I was super happy!! I loved the first book and was always so curious what happened to everyone. I loved this book but then went back and read a spoiler/recap of The Family Upstairs.. wow wow wow, so cool!! I would suggest reading the books closer together but if not do what I did, it helps. This book practically picks up right away from the first book. "
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Amanda Warren