The Family Remains: the gripping Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller (The Family Upstairs, 2)

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I really enjoyed reading The Family Remains and look forward to reading many more books by Lisa Jewell. DCI Owusu is an excellent detective, and he follows the clues, as sparse as they initially are, to identifying the woman as one Birdie Dunlop-Evers, who twenty-five years ago lived at the Chelsea mansion where three adults were found dead from an apparent suicide pact. The phone slipped from her hand onto the floor and she grabbed it up again, staring at the number with wide eyes, adrenaline charging through her even though it was barely seven in the morning. Her mother was a secretary and her father was a textile agent and she was brought up in the northernmost reaches of London with her two younger sisters.

I'm obviously an outlier (what's new) but really this book just fell a part in the last 25% and I couldn't in good conscience give it anything higher than a one. Learning what’s next for Henry and Lucy and Phin and Clemency so wonderfully completes the story that began for us three years ago. Lisa Jewell's THE FAMILY REMAINS is the sequel to The Family Upstairs, my favorite novel that I've read from the author.Lucy and Henry have kept in contact with adult Libby, as they knew she would inherit the money at the age of 25. This was officially one star when Henry and Lucy reentered the UK with their fake passports AFTER Interpol had located them and they were questioned by the police. Libby is also keen to track down her birth father – Phineas (Phin) Thomsen (son of cult leader David Thomsen) – who has been missing for over twenty-five years. Why do you think Henry, despite his previous moment of clarity about his self-worth, begins to take on this new identity? So, DCI Owusu starts trying to put the pieces together of what happened all those years ago when people died and people disappeared from 16 Cheyne Walk.

Then, there is a third storyline, which will, of course, eventually blend into the others, but it begins a couple of years earlier than the discovery of the bones and Henry taking off to Chicago. And Phin goes back to Botswana, but now has a close relationship with his daughter, Libby and his mother and sister down in Cornwall.The Family Remains is probably a book I won't remember, but it has some fun twists and turns and scores high on the entertainment scale. An above average read, which I think fans of The Family Upstairs will appreciate, but I preferred The Family Upstairs. It was almost impossible for me to remember the characters from The Family Upstairs and to also remember all of the crazy, immoral things that went on. There are three other intricately drawn “mysteries” within the story that connect the characters, and I don’t want to spoil that part.

I will also have author interviews and author related pieces to enrich the reading experience of that particular author's works.If this book had a pic of a cat eating lasagna with a baddie standing in the window holding a vial of posion and was titled 2 Hot 2 Handle then I'd be like ight, this drama is kinda fun or whatever. The Family Remains𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 - Lisa Jewell𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 - Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime Fiction𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 - 429 pages𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 - 15+𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬:𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗡. But as the recording sessions go deeper and deeper into the truth of Josie’s life, Alix soon realizes that Josie is not as ordinary as she appears. I struggled a lot with my rating, and when it comes right down to it, not much even happens in this book. I don’t want to say too much more as I don’t want to spoil the plot, but I was completely enthralled by this story.