I’ve been slowly but surely making my way through this novel, and not because it’s badly written, or hard to get through, but I simply haven’t had much time! I should have it finished soon, though, possibly by this weekend, and then I’ll get all of my thoughts down.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.

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. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. 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.

Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.

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.

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Hey y'all, been a little while. I actually read this book weeks ago and I got through it so quickly I didn’t even think to do a currently reading post or anything. For whatever reason, I also kept forgetting to write up a review for it, but here I finally am.

Like pretty much every Lisa Jewell novel I’ve read so far, I was thoroughly entertained from beginning to end. She knows how to write a good mystery thriller, and this one was no exception! Apparently there’s also a sequel to this one, so I’m looking forward to picking that one up and giving it a read as well.

There’s some dark themes in this one though, so just be warned. Honestly it’s pretty reminiscent of Flowers in the Attack by V.C. Andrews, though maybe not quite as twisted.

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Trigger Warnings: Violence, Murder, Child Abuse (Physical and Sexual), Marital Abuse,