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Prepare to be hooked: nail-biting suspense from the addictive number one million-copy bestselling author.
Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josie's life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can't quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly Alix starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it Josie has inveigled her way into Alix's life - and into her home.
But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, her life and her family's lives under mortal threat.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
This is the unforgettable story about a family with a secret at its core, from Top Ten bestseller Lisa Jewell.
Imagine a picture-book cottage in a village. A family in a sun-drenched kitchen filled with love and laughter. Picture an Easter weekend when tragedy strikes - so unexpected, so devastating that no one can talk about it.
The years pass; the children become adults. Gradually they lose touch as the secret between them tears them apart. And then something happens that calls them back to the house they grew up in - and to what really happened that Easter weekend all those years ago.
A cold case. An abandoned mansion. A family hiding a terrible secret. Prepare to be hooked. Lisa Jewell's latest thriller is her best yet.
Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim. At 11pm she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30am Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home. Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place. Tallulah never returns.
2018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head-teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence. Then she sees a sign that says: DIG HERE...
*Hardback out 20th July 2023* Celebrating her 45th birthday at her
local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming
woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th
birthday. They are, in fact birthday twins. A few days later, Alix
and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's
children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and
thinks she might be an interesting subject for Alix's series. She
is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. Alix
agrees to a trial interview. Josie's life appears to be strange and
complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can't
quite resist the temptation to keep digging. Slowly Alix starts to
realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and
before she knows it Josie has inveigled her way into Alix's life -
and into her home. Soon she begins to wonder who is Josie Fair? And
what has she done?
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED . . .
Early morning: on the foreshore of the
river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones.
DCI Samuel Owusu quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The
bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many
years ago.
Also inside the bag is a trail of clues which lead DCI Owusu to a
mansion in Chelsea where thirty years previously three people lay dead,
while a baby upstairs waited for someone to pick her up.
Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family whose secrets can't stay
buried for ever.
'I swear I didn't breathe the whole time I was reading it.
Gripping, pacy, brilliantly twisty.' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Creepy,
intricate and utterly immersive: an excellent holiday read.'
GUARDIAN 'A twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and
redemption.' IAN RANKIN ____________________________ FROM THE #1
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THEN SHE WAS GONE 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. ____________________________ 'Rich, dark
and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunnit mixes family
saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.' RUTH WARE
'You don't read a Lisa Jewell book, you fall into it. It takes huge
talent to establish a whole world in the turn of two pages.' ERIN
KELLY 'I had an unrelentingly pleasurable and thrilling
for-God's-sake-tell-me-what-happened sensation in my stomach for
the entire read ... Stupendous!' RUTH JONES 'Absolutely brilliant.
Great characterisation, a fascinating and dark set up and a great
conclusion. She's always great but this is next level stuff.' SARAH
PINBOROUGH 'Few 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.' AJ FINN
'Whenever I pick up a Lisa Jewell novel I know I'm in for a
compelling, immersive and unputdownable read and The Family
Upstairs is one of her very best' CL TAYLOR 'I had hoped to save
The Family Upstairs for my holiday, but failed miserably ... I was
hooked from the first page. I think it's her best yet and hands
down my favourite book so far this year.' ALICE FEENEY 'Utterly
compelling. Deliciously dark and twisty with characters who live on
in your head. Lisa Jewell just keeps getting better and better.'
JANE CORRY 'This is my pick of the crop of thrillers out this month
... Lisa Jewell is brilliant at creating a menacing atmosphere and
this is almost unbelievably tense at times.' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
'It's absolutely bloody brilliant and I can't tell you much I wish
I'd written it.' TAMMY COHEN 'It's SO GOOD!' INDIA KNIGHT 'I loved
The Family Upstairs!' SARAH JESSICA PARKER
____________________________ Readers are obsessed with The Family
Upstairs: 'I read so many books in the crime/mystery genre that it
becomes harder to find a book that stands out. This one succeeded!!
Hooked from page one' 'I totally adored this book. All of Lisa
Jewell's books are fabulous, but something about this one is extra
special.' 'Absolutely absorbing ... thoroughly enjoyed it' 'Kept me
captivated from the very beginning ... Definitely worth reading -
as long you like reading into the night!' 'Everything you could
wish for in a book. I devoured it.' 'Wow!!' 'What a book. Clever
would be an understatement. And those last pages left me with
chills. The concept had me intrigued and the execution had me
captivated. I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN!'
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED . . . * #1 UK SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * * A
NEW YORK TIMES BSETSELLER * * OVER 2,000 5 STAR REVIEWS * 'I was
ENTHRALLED. Empathetic, gripping, authentic' Gillian McAllister 'A
GRIPPING read. Superb!' Shari Lapena 'The story EVERYONE has been
waiting for.' Adele Parks 'Fast-paced, cleverly plotted. GRIPS from
first page to last' Paula Hawkins 'Artful, slippery, HUGELY
SATISFYING. A rare treat awaits!' Louise Candlish ___________
LONDON. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river
Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu
is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic
examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow
to the head many years ago. Also inside the bag is a trail of
clues, in particular the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu
back to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly thirty years previously,
three people lay dead in a kitchen, and a baby waited upstairs for
someone to pick her up. The clues point forward too to a brother
and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make
sense of their pasts. Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family
whose secrets can't stay buried for ever ... ___________ 'Twisty
and strange and surprising' EMILY HENRY 'Dark menace, consummate
plotting. A sheer PLEASURE to read' HARRIET TYCE 'This is
perfection on a page.' ALICE FEENEY 'A riveting, rollicking read,
guaranteed to send your blood pressure soaring' RED MAGAZINE 'It's
a triumph. Brava!' ERIN KELLY 'Compulsive, gripping and immersive.'
CL TAYLOR 'Lisa Jewell is, simply, outstanding.' ALEX MARWOOD
'Compelling, ingenious, breath-stopping.' TAMAR COHEN 'A witty and
propulsive stunner of a novel.' KATHERINE HEINY 'This is Lisa
Jewell at her absolute best. I loved it!' PAUL BURSTON 'A
compulsive, dark, satisfying tale that will pick you up and refuse
to put you down.' CATHERINE STEADMAN ___________ Readers can't get
enough of The Family Remains . . . ***** 'There's nothing about
this book that I would change. Seriously.' ***** 'My expectations
were high and this still managed to surpass them.' ***** 'The
writing is outstanding from start to finish and it's an engrossing
read.' ***** 'I could not put it down and loved the surprises and
twists.' ***** 'Lisa Jewell can write one hell of a thriller!!'
THE BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE AND TOP RICHARD & JUDY
SELECTION. She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her
whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie
was gone. Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding
Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who
sweeps her off her feet. But what really takes her breath away is
when she meets his nine-year-old daughter. Because his daughter is
the image of Ellie. Now all those unanswered questions that have
haunted Laurel come flooding back. What really happened to Ellie?
And who still has secrets to hide? _________________ OVER 1,000 5*
REVIEWS - this is why readers love this book: 'Grips to the point
of OBSESSION' 'My life STOPPED while I read this book' 'My heart
was THUMPING in my chest' 'This is EDGE OF YOUR SEAT reading' 'This
book left me BREATHLESS' 'Cancel all plans and BUY THIS BOOK'
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YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WATCHING 'Page one intrigued me. Page three
hooked me. By page five, I was consumed. This compulsive,
propulsive novel is both a seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a
genuinely moving family drama. Stellar.' - A.J. Finn, author of The
Woman in the Window _______________ You're back home after four
years working abroad, new husband in tow. You're keen to find a
place of your own. But for now you're crashing in your big
brother's spare room. That's when you meet the man next door. He's
the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age.
Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the
time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a
deadly obsession. Or that someone is watching you. _______________
Family secrets, illicit passion and an unexplained murder? It can
only be the gripping new novel from Lisa Jewell, #1 bestselling
author of Then She Was Gone. _______________ 'I was totally gripped
by this excellent psychological thriller. Set in Bristol, it opens
with a dead body, then moves into the head of Joey, a newly-married
27-year-old who gets a sudden crush on one of her new neighbours,
which quickly becomes obsessive. Hugely enjoyable.' - Marian Keyes,
author of The Break 'If you only pick one summer read this year,
make it Watching You. I inhaled it in one sitting. A gripping plot,
characters you love but can't trust, and a thumping emotional
heart, Lisa Jewell has done it again.' - Sarah Pinborough, author
of Behind Her Eyes and 13 Minutes 'If you loved The Woman in The
Window and The Girl on the Train then this is for you!' - the
Hotlist, U Magazine 'Then She Was Gone was my favourite thriller
last year and this is even better. Brilliantly plotted and
impossible to put down, it kept me guessing until the very end.' -
Alice Feeney, author of Sometimes I Lie 'She's done it again! Lisa
Jewell has penned the page-turner of the summer.
Emotionally-engrossing and utterly compelling, with a mystery that
keeps you gripped until the last heart-wrenching page.' - Tammy
Cohen, author of They All Fall Down 'Jewell writes wonderfully
engaging characters who weave plausibly tangled webs and the
whodunit was largely incidental until the closing pages. She
masterfully draws all her threads together, throwing in some
cunning twists for good measure...The countdown is on for the next
Lisa Jewell novel.' - Daily Express 'A finely drawn domestic
thriller.' - India Knight
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THEN SHE WAS GONE
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.
Everyone has secrets. What if you can't remember yours? 'Fresh and
intriguing, with characters so real I ached for them. I loved I
Found You' Clare Mackintosh 'I LOVED I Found You. A proper thriller
with wonderful characters' Sabine Durrant _______________ Two
women. Twenty years of secrets. And a man who doesn't remember
anything. Or does he? Lily has only been married for three weeks.
When her new husband fails to come home from work one night, she is
left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Alice finds
a man on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, no
idea what he is doing there. Against her better judgement, she
invites him into her home. But who is he, and how can she trust a
man who has lost his memory? _______________ Readers love I FOUND
YOU . . . ***** 'Wow! I loved this book. A fantastic psychological
suspense novel.' ***** 'This book had EVERYTHING!!! I enjoyed this
very, very much.' ***** 'Lisa Jewell never lets me down ever. A
great book with an ending you may not be expecting.' ***** 'This is
my favourite novel by this author so far.' ***** 'For fast paced
suspense, well developed characters, and a great story, it just
doesn't get any better than this!' _______________ Praise for Lisa
Jewell . . . 'I read it all in one sitting' COLLEEN HOOVER 'I loved
The Family Upstairs!' SARAH JESSICA PARKER 'Gripping' OLIVIA COLMAN
'Enthralling' RUTH WARE 'Engrossing' IAN RANKIN 'Twisty' CLARE
MACKINTOSH 'Excellent' GUARDIAN 'Stupendous' RUTH JONES 'Brilliant'
SARAH PINBOROUGH 'Unputdownable' C.L. TAYLOR
After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to
begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends,
summer jobs--all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age--in
order to care for Arlette in their dilapidated, albeit charming
home on the English island of Guernsey. Her will included a
beneficiary unknown to Betty and her family, a woman named Clara
Pickle who presumably could be found at a London address. Now,
having landed on a rather shabby street corner in '90s Soho, Betty
is determined to find the mysterious Clara. She's ready for
whatever life has to throw her way. Or so she thinks . . .
In 1920s bohemian London, Arlette De La Mare is starting her new
life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she is
soon drawn into the hedonistic world of the Bright Young People.
But two years after her arrival in London, tragedy strikes and she
flees back to her childhood home and remains there for the rest of
her life.
As Betty navigates the ups and downs of city life and begins
working as a nanny for a rock star tabloid magnet, her search for
Clara leads her to a man--a stranger to Betty, but someone who
meant the world to her grandmother. Will the secrets of Arlette's
past help Betty find her own way to happiness in the present?
A rich detective story and a captivating look at London then and
now, "Before I Met You" is an unforgettable novel about two very
different women, separated by seventy years, but united by big
hearts and even bigger dreams.
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