Book: The Family Remains

 Book: The Family Remains

Author: Lisa Jewell

Pages: 384

This is my 242nd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Early one morning on the shore of the Thamses, DCI Samuel Owusu is called ot the scene of a greusome discovery.  When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a chelsea mansion 30 years ago.  Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock - news that her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France.  All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn't want to answer.  After fleeing London 30 years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy, Lucy Lamb is finally coming home.  While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first ever house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present.  As they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they will come to find that they're connected in ways they could have never imagined.  

So - my bad.  I did not know this was a second book in a series!  I should have looked into it better before I pulled t off my shelf.  This is a sequel to The Family Upstairs.  I am wondering if my review would be different if I read that one first (I plan on reading it soon to find out).  IT was a good book, but not as good as some as the others of hers I have read.  There are a lot of hard topics in this one -rape is one of them, and I really do not like reading about domestic violence.  She did pull it all together in the end and wrapped it up well. 

STars: 3.5