The Family Remains

Prepare to be hooked by the gripping thriller that returns to the dark secrets of Lisa Jewell’s million-copy bestseller The Family Upstairs.

* #1 UK SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *
* A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *

'I was ENTHRALLED' Gillian McAllister
'A GRIPPING read' Shari Lapena
'A sheer PLEASURE to read' Harriet Tyce

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 . . .

More praise for The Family Remains:

'Grips from first page to last' Paula Hawkins

'Artful, slippery, HUGELY SATISFYING' Louise Candlish

'Compulsive, gripping and immersive' CL Taylor

'Twisty and strange and surprising' Emily Henry

'Perfection on a page' Alice Feeney

'The story EVERYONE has been waiting for' Adele Parks

'Guaranteed to send your blood pressure soaring' Red Magazine

'It's a triumph. Brava!' Erin Kelly

'Lisa Jewell is, simply, outstanding' Alex Marwood

'Compelling, ingenious, breath-stopping' Tammy Cohen

'A witty and propulsive stunner of a novel' Katherine Heiny

'This is Lisa Jewell at her absolute best.' Paul Burston

'A compulsive, dark, satisfying tale' Catherine Steadman

'The writing is outstanding from start to finish and it's an engrossing read' 5-star reader review

'I could not put it down and loved the surprises and twists' 5-star reader review

'Lisa Jewell can write one hell of a thriller!!' 5-star reader review

The Family Remains, Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, May 2023
New York Times bestseller, August 2023