# The Family Upstairs

**Author(s):** Lisa Jewell
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, thriller
**Pages:** 464
**Publisher:** Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781473561342
**ISBN-10:** 1473561345
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-family-upstairs

## Description

Jewell has a way with the quietly creepy subgenre of domestic suspense. Her books, this one included, often rely on the kind of passive spying we do on our neighbors and loved ones—the kind of spying that uncovers unsettling secrets. In this book, the heroine, Libby Jones, has reached her twenty-fifth birthday and thus learns what her long-dead parents left to her: a house in London’s chichi Kensington neighborhood. But while Libby has been going about her life without incident when she becomes an heiress everything changes: she also learns of the violence in her family’s past and has no choice but to try and figure out what happened to her parents. 
(Review by Lisa Levy on crimereads.com )

## SageChimp reader verdict

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**Themes:** Crime Investigation