Author
Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell writes thriller and mystery. We've read and reviewed 2 of Lisa Jewell's books, including It Could Have Been Her and The Family Upstairs, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
It Could Have Been Her
by Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell sends a stray terrier and a missing teenager to unlock a house with a twenty-five-year-old body count, and the dual-timeline plotting is tight enough to reward careful readers without insulting them.
The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell
Libby Jones turns twenty-five and inherits a derelict Chelsea mansion, along with the story of the three bodies found on its kitchen floor when she was the baby left alive upstairs. Lisa Jewell braids three narrators across two decades into a domestic noir about a family losing its own house to a houseguest, one reasonable concession at a time.