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The Family Upstairs

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK

"Rich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect." --Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author

"A haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read." --Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author

From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family's past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

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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ISBN9781432885106
PublisherGale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date02/03/21
Pages485

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  • elbleserin
    elbleserin

    670 Followers

    5.0

    Tragische Familiengeschichte , sehr spannend verpackt. Großartig. Lese gleich den 2. Teil hinterher.

    Apr 20, 2026

  • daze2478
    daze2478

    462 Followers

    5.0

    Das Buch hatte eine große Sogwirkung. Es war spannend und fesselnd von Anfang bis Ende. Ein toller Roman erzählt aus 3 Perspektiven und 2 Zeitebenen. Von Kapitel zu Kapitel kommt man der Frage näher ,,was damals geschah“. Das Ende lässt mich wie nach einem erfolgreich beendeten Puzzle befriedigt zurück. Für mich ein Spannungsroman ganz nach meinem Geschmack und eine klare Leseempfehlung!

    Jan 24, 2026

  • philomenalovesbooks
    philomenalovesbooks

    555 Followers

    4.0

    Ich bin ja großer Fan von Büchern die in der Gegenwart sowie in der Vergangenheit spielen. Dieser Aspekt wurde hier sehr gut umgesetzt. Das Buch lässt sich schnell und flüssig lesen, ich mochte es. Das Ende fand ich nicht so überzeugend hier hätte ich mir etwas anderes erwartet.

    Oct 19, 2025

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therryoooFeb 19, 2026

Ich frage mich ob Libbys Arbeitskollegin noch eine andere Rolle spielen wird. Also ob sie was weiß/kennt von damals...

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