The Family Upstairs

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the long-awaited letter that promises to reveal the truth about her identity. She tears it open, thinking only, I am finally going to know who I am. She soon discovers not only the identities 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 upscale Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is poised to change—but she doesn’t yet realize that others have been waiting for this day too, and she is on a collision course with them. Twenty-five years earlier, police had been called to 16 Cheyne Walk over reports of a baby crying. Upon arrival, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib, while downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. The four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk had vanished. In The Family Upstairs, the master of “bone-chilling suspense” (People) delivers a gripping, can’t-look-away tale of three entangled families bound by a house harboring the darkest of secrets.