INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇ£Other authors are at a ten out of ten,for meand Lisa is a solid hundred.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöGillian McAllisterThe Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell weaves a ΓÇ£simply masterfulΓÇ¥ (Samantha Downinginternationally bestselling author) thriller about twisted marriagesfractured familiesand deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to The Family Upstairs. Early one morning on the shore of the ThamesDCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examinationhe 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 shockΓÇöher husbandMichaelhas been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruderand the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesnΓÇÖt want to answer. After fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedyLucy Lamb is finally coming home. While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first househer 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 mysteriesthey will come to find that theyΓÇÖre connected in ways they could have never imagined. In this masterful standalone sequel to her haunting New York Times bestseller The Family UpstairsΓÇ£Lisa Jewell is a superb writer at the top of her gameΓÇ¥ (Karin SlaughterNew York Times bestselling author) with another jaw-droppingintricateand affecting novel about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love and uncover the truth.