I give The Family Upstairs 3 out of 5 stars. I want them to be so good that I finish them in a day or two.įor me, this was not one of those books, but if you’re into writers of psychological suspense then I suggest reading Ruth Ware.
I’m not one that likes to take time with my books.
You really need to read for a bit to see how the characters develop and see what secrets slowly reveal themselves. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t one of those books that make you want to keep on reading to see what happens next. It is a domestic suspense that involves a suicide pact in a family home full of young children.įast forward to the present day and a surprise inheritance is revealed with more slippery plots, a mysterious death, and multiple storylines. If you like literary fiction with some suspense and mystery, you’ll like this book. ( From the publisher.Click here to buy The Family Upstairs on Amazon 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. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom.ĭownstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note.
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. 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.Įverything in Libby’s life is about to change. 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. From author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.
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