The plot was extremely well crafted and brought with it an element of mystery and tension, along with an atmosphere that felt increasingly sinister. With timelines spanning both past and present and told from the contrasting perspectives of three characters who were inextricably connected yet living very different lives, the story became more engrossing with each page. This was a dark and complex tale which kept me fully invested throughout. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. 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. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. 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. 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. Pre-order now to be one of the first to read it.Trigger warnings: Drugs, rape/sexual abuse **The sequel to million-copy bestseller THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS, publishing July 2022. An unsolved mystery.Ī family whose secrets can’t stay buried for ever … The clues point forward too to a brother and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make sense of their pasts. 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 bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago. Human bones.ĭCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. **Loved THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS? Find out what happened next …**

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