Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions.
Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well–and she is on a collision course to meet them. Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone. There are dark secrets in this house that will slowly be revealed.
Lisa Jewell is a great go-to for a creepy domestic thriller–a mindless, absorbing page turner that offers just the right amount of creepy and evil. This is her latest but it wasn’t her best. I did like the premise and the first half, then it fizzled. I found it a bit hard to keep track of the characters, there were not enough twists and turns, and the ending was weak.
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