This book was purchased by Traveling With T for her own reading time.

The Family Remains

Summary: 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.

 

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

I absolutely LOVED The Family Upstairs, the book before The Family Remains.

I think to enjoy The Family Remains to it’s full potential that you should read The Family Upstairs, but you don’t have to read it. Both stories stand on their own.

What I Liked:

The cover is pretty!

Rachel and Lucy’s story. Both women had strong stories.

How things turn out for Libby.

 

Bottom line: I was glad to hear more stories from this family. The Family Upstairs is creepy and twisted, but The Family Remains fills in the gaps on some of the “why” of the behavior in TFU.

 

*This book was purchased by Traveling With T for her own personal reading time. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.*

 

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Happy Reading and Bookishly Yours,

T @ Traveling With T