Someone killed him.’Īt first Rachel felt a kind of numb delight. Please stop crying and tell me what’s happened.’ For five days I have been here to clean and all that time, Mr Rimmer, he was down, down there …’ For five days he was not here and I thought he was away. Rachel threw back her duvet and jumped from her bed. Rachel sat up, pulling her pillows into place behind her back, and called back the number. She picked up her phone and sleepily dialled up 1571. Half an hour later, Rachel’s alarm went off. She had not heard from him for over two weeks and the silence had been both liberating and terrifying. She opened her eyes and peered at the screen again. Please, just leave me alone.Ī moment later she heard the chirrup of a notification. What do you want? It’s not even seven in the morning. Groggy with sleep, she peered at the screen and then let the phone drop back onto her bedside table. Read on for the first chapter of the follow-up to The Family Upstairs – The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell.Ī phone-call from a French number. A family whose secrets can’t stay buried for ever… The clues point forward too to a brother and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make sense of their pasts.įour deaths. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago.Īlso 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. DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell has gripped audiences around the world, becoming a smash hit with readers everywhere.īut what happened next? Find out in Lisa’s sequel, The Family Remains.

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