In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea,a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for,she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up.
In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They've been dead for several days.
Who has been looking after the baby And where did they go
Two entangled families. A house with the darkest of secrets. A compulsive new thriller from Lisa Jewell.
Publisher: CornerstoneISBN: 9781787461482Number of pages: 480Weight: 333 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
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I swear I didn't breathe the whole time I was reading. Gripping,pacy,brilliantly twisty.Rich,dark and intricately twisted,this enthralling whodunnit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.Twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and redemption. Reminiscent of Donna Tartt in scope and qualityFew writers of psychological suspense devise such swift,slippery plots; fewer still people their stories with characters so human and complex. Lisa's Jewell's The Family Upstairs glitters like a blade and cuts even deeper.Creepy,intricate and utterly immersive: an excellent holiday read.
Lisa Jewell
British author Lisa Jewell's first book,Ralph's Party,came out in 1998. Since then,she's gone on to write a range of fiction including her so-called'curry and flatmates'novels of the nineties and noughties as well as challenging contemporary fiction and thrillers.
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