Whether you’re hoping to keep the spooky season Halloween vibes going a little bit longer or are ready to dive into a wintry, chilling crime story, this month’s selection of new releases has you covered. She claims David’s alternative medicine practices could help with the senior Henry’s deteriorating health.

The Family Upstairs (Lisa Jewell) Summary Guide - LitLovers The Family Upstairs (Lisa Jewell) Summary Guide - LitLovers

After meeting Henry, Lucy, and Lucy’s two children, Libby develops a close relationship with her biological mother. I guess I’m just basic like that, but either way, all the characters feel distinctive with unique personalities. For a while the PR company Henry had set up for her had plugged the gaps and stopped the reality bursting through. 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. Playful and irreverent, spine-tingling and spooky, The September House puts a fresh spin on the classic haunted house story, delivering an immersive tale about the secrets lurking within one building’s walls, and within the lives of its inhabitants.When Jodie, a 16-year-old white girl with facial deformities, accuses four Muslim teenagers of raping her, who is telling the truth? A story that begins with a familiar classic mystery plotline (a protagonist receiving a surprise inheritance), THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS builds and morphs to encompass elements of domestic noir, Gothic atmosphere, and even international intrigue. When she visits the lawyer, she is shocked to find out that she was put up for adoption when she was 10 months old after her parents died in the house in an apparent suicide pact with an unidentified man and that she has an older brother and sister who were teenagers at the time of their parents' deaths and haven't been seen since. When Libby inherits her parents’ mansion, she begins to dig into the history of the building—and what she discovers shocks her to her core.

The Family Upstairs | Book by Lisa Jewell | Official The Family Upstairs | Book by Lisa Jewell | Official

It had been empty then; bare white walls, curtainless windows, just the raw light reflected off the river streaming through the glass. She learns not only the identity of her 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. Andrew, grieving and jittery on a diet of coffee and LSD, sets off on a quest for answers that leads him into a web of corruption stretching all the way to the boardrooms of America. I previously read The She Was Gone and was on the fence about Jewell, but after reading The Family Upstairs, I feel pretty sure I’ll be reading more of her work. From author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.Three siblings who have been out of touch for more than 20 years grapple with their unsettling childhoods, but when the youngest inherits the family home, all are drawn back together.

The Family Remains: the gripping Sunday Times No. 1 The Family Remains: the gripping Sunday Times No. 1

She compromised on everything in the end to find a place that was close to her job and not too far from the train station. Ranked from Christmas level 1 - 5 (with Level 1 being Christmas in the background of the story, and Level 5 being a full-on, 100% Christmas-y plot! She’d turned twenty-eight, then twenty-nine and now she is here, two days away from her thirtieth birthday, a beautiful woman, a little too thin (eat something, woman, says Henry. It’s an impressive juggling act that appears effortless, and readers looking for a psychological thriller that marches to the beat of its own drum will adore Jewell’s newest offering.

Rich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect. Huge thanks to Vanessa and her publisher for giving us this early sneak peek—I can’t wait to read BLOOD SISTERS this fall!