'ENTHRALLED. I think it is by far Lisa's best yet: empathetic, gripping, authentic. Other authors are at a ten out of ten, for me, and Lisa is a solid hundred.' Gillian McAllister

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 ...

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED.

IT'S LISA JEWELL'S NEW NOVEL ...

**The sequel to million-copy bestseller THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS, publishing July 2022. Pre-order now to be one of the first to read it.**

'Enthralling' RUTH WARE

'Gripping' OLIVIA COLMAN

'Engrossing' IAN RANKIN

'I loved The Family Upstairs!' SARAH JESSICA PARKER

'Twisty' CLARE MACKINTOSH

'Excellent' GUARDIAN

'Stupendous' RUTH JONES

'Brilliant' SARAH PINBOROUGH

'Unputdownable' C.L. TAYLOR