Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels, including The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone, as well as Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her novels have sold over 10 million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into twenty-nine languages. Connect with her on Twitter @LisaJewellUK, on Instagram @LisaJewellUK, and on Facebook @LisaJewellOfficial.
All Books By Lisa Jewell
A Friend of the Family
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 10, 2019
- Language: English
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3.72(3783 ratings)
Brothers Tony, Sean, and Ned had the perfect upbringing, but now that they are grown-up, real life is starting to get in the way.
Tony’s dealing with divorce and a weight problem, novelist Sean is up against a serious case of writer’s block and a shock announcement from his “perfect” new girlfriend, and their parents have a new lodger, Gervase. Why is Bernie, their mother, so keen to give this unsavory waif a home? And what is the real reason for kid brother Ned’s surprise return from his travels in Australia?
... Read moreAfter the Party
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 11, 2018
- Language: English
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3.54(3578 ratings)
Before I Met You
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 15 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 07, 2018
- Language: English
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3.9(10446 ratings)
After her grandmother Arlette’s death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs-all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age-in order to care for Arlette. Now she’s ready for whatever life throws at her, and, since the will included a beneficiary unknown to her who lives in the city, she heads there to find the mysterious woman… In 1920s London, Arlette is starting her new life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she’s drawn into a hedonistic world, but then tragedy strikes, and she flees back to her childhood home… When Betty’s search leads her to a man-someone who meant the world to her grandmother-the secrets of Arlette’s past may help Betty find her own way to happiness in the present… A rich detective story and a captivating look at London then and now, Before I Met You is an unforgettable novel about two very different women, separated by seventy years but united by big hearts and even bigger dreams.
... Read moreFamily Upstairs
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Tamaryn Payne
- Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.97(227645 ratings)
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK
“Rich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.” –Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author
“A haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read.” –Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.
Be careful who you let in.
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.
In The Family Upstairs, the master of “bone-chilling suspense” (People) brings us the can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.
I Found You
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 25, 2017
- Language: English
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3.97(73550 ratings)
In a windswept British seaside town, single mum Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. He has no name and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her husband fails to come home from work one night, she is left alone in a place where she knows no one and with the police telling her that her husband never existed. In this suspenseful drama, both women must sort through the secrets surrounding men neither of them knows if they can trust.
... Read moreI Found You – Booktrack Edition
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 30, 2018
- Language: English
I Found You: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! In a windswept British seaside town, single mum Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. He has no name and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her husband fails to come home from work one night, she is left alone in a place where she knows no one and with the police telling her that her husband never existed. In this suspenseful drama, both women must sort through the secrets surrounding men neither of them knows if they can trust.
... Read moreInvisible Girl
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Donna Banya
- Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.82(84044 ratings)
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I absolutely loved Invisible Girl–Lisa Jewell has a way of combining furiously twisty, utterly gripping plots with wonderfully rich characterization–she has such compassion for her characters, and we feel we know them utterly… A triumph!” –Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone returns with an intricate thriller about a young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake.
Young Saffyre Maddox spent three years under the care of renowned child psychologist Roan Fours. When Dr. Fours decides their sessions should end, Saffyre feels abandoned. She begins looking for ways to connect with him, from waiting outside his office to walking through his neighborhood late at night. She soon learns more than she ever wanted to about Roan and his deceptively perfect family life. On a chilly Valentine’s night, Saffyre will disappear, taking any secrets she has learned with her.
Owen Pick’s life is falling apart. In his thirties and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct–accusations he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel forums, where he meets a charismatic and mysterious figure.
Owen lives across the street from the Fours family. The Fours have a bad feeling about their neighbor; Owen is a bit creepy and suspect and their teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the train station one night. Could Owen be responsible? What happened to the beautiful missing Saffyre, and does her disappearance truly connect them all?
Evocative, vivid, and unputdownable, Lisa Jewell’s latest thriller is another “haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author).
One-Hit Wonder
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 10, 2019
- Language: English
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3.72(5645 ratings)
Shy and gawky, Ana has always daydreamed about living the life of her exotic half-sister Bee, a pop singer who had a #1 hit single before she inexplicably vanished from the celebrity scene. When Bee turns up dead, Ana is dispatched to the big city to clear out her apartment.
Instantly seduced by the second-hand glamour of Bee’s baubles, bangles, and bottles of Pierre-Jouet, Ana takes up with Bee’s wild club-hopping cronies. News of a missing cat and a remote country cottage soon convince Ana that her sister was leading a secret life. Now, she’s on a mission to discover what really happened to Bee Bearhorn, the one-hit wonder–and what is about to happen to the unremarkable Ana Wills.
... Read moreRalph’s Party
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Imogen Church
- Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 02, 2014
- Language: English
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3.61(10812 ratings)
Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates–until, that is, the gorgeous Jemima moves in. Then suddenly they’re bickering about a lot more than who drank the last beer. Of course, Jem knows that one of them is the man for her–but is it Ralph or Smith?
Upstairs, Karl and Siobhan have been happily unmarried for fifteen years–until, that is, Cheri moves into the flat above theirs. Cheri’s got her eye on Karl and doesn’t see why she should let a little thing like his girlfriend stand in her way…
Sooner or later it’s all got to come to a head–and what better place for tears and laughter, break ups and make ups than Ralph’s party?
... Read moreRoommates Wanted
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 12, 2019
- Language: English
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3.77(4146 ratings)
1990. Please write and tell me why you should live here. Toby Dobbs received a big Victorian house with too many bedrooms to count as a wedding present from his father, but his marriage is over within a month. Very alone, and very lonely, Toby posts an advertisement seeking the Unexpectedly Alone to become his roommates. Fifteen years later, the wayward souls he takes in are still living with him, with no intention of leaving. 2004. Please tell me how I can convince you to move out. Toby Dobbs has met Leah Pilgrim from across the road, and they’re falling in love. But before they can begin a new life together, Toby and Leah must help Toby’s house of sweet slackers and lovelorn misfits grow up, solve their problems, and set themselves free. But can their new relationship survive the test?
... Read moreThe Family Remains
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Dominic Thorburn
- Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.92(31140 ratings)
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The page-turner will sate fans and win over new readers alike…a solid stand-alone tale of mystery and suspense.” —USA TODAY
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this stand-alone sequel to the “brilliantly chilling” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs.
Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome 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 thirty 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 thirty 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.
In this masterful standalone sequel to her haunting New York Times bestseller, The Family Upstairs, Lisa Jewell proves she is writing at the height of her powers with another jaw-dropping, intricate, and affecting novel about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love and uncover the truth.
The Girls In the Garden
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 07, 2017
- Language: English
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3.59(46482 ratings)
Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?
... Read moreThe House We Grew Up In
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Karina Fernandez
- Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 17, 2019
- Language: English
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3.84(49599 ratings)
Meet the picture-perfect Bird family: pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and towheaded twins Rory and Rhys, one an adventurous troublemaker, the other his slighter, more sensitive counterpart. Their father is a sweet, gangly man, but it’s their beautiful, free-spirited mother Lorelei who spins at the center. In those early years, Lorelei tries to freeze time by filling their simple brick house with precious mementos. Easter egg foils are her favorite–craft supplies too. She hangs all of the children’s art, to her husband’s chagrin. Then one Easter weekend, a tragedy so devastating occurs that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear the family apart. Years pass and the children have become adults, while Lorelei has become the county’s worst hoarder. She has alienated her husband and children and has been living as a recluse. But then something happens that beckons the Bird family back to the house they grew up in–to finally understand the events of that long-ago Easter weekend and to unearth the many secrets hidden within the nooks and crannies of home.
... Read moreThe Making of Us
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 05, 2018
- Language: English
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3.79(10668 ratings)
Lydia, Dean, and Robyn don’t know one another…yet. Each is facing difficult challenges: Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood. Wealthy and successful, she leads a lonely and disjointed existence. Dean is a young, unemployed single dad whose life is going nowhere. Robyn is eighteen. Gorgeous, popular, and intelligent, she entered her first year of college confident about her dream to become a pediatrician. Now she’s failing her classes. Now she’s falling in love for the first time. Lydia, Dean, and Robyn live very different lives, but each of them, independently, has always felt that something was missing. What they don’t know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It’s a letter containing a secret-one that will bind them together and show them what love and family and friendship really mean. A literary gem, The Making of Us will remind listeners of the miracles that happen when we bring life into the world and share our lives with those we love.
... Read moreThe Night She Disappeared
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Joanne Froggatt
- Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.15(107233 ratings)
A 2022 Audie Award Finalist
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes “her best thriller yet” (Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author) about a young couple’s disappearance on a gorgeous summer night, and the mother who will never give up trying to find them.
On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend.
One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer’s favorite place for long walks and it’s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, “DIG HERE.”
Could this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple? And what exactly is buried in this haunted ground?
“Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart” (Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author) that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The Third Wife
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Joe Jameson
- Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 03, 2018
- Language: English
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3.53(27745 ratings)
In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman steps into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? At the center of this puzzle is Adrian Wolfe, a successful architect and grief-stricken widower, who, a year after his third wife’s death, begins to investigate the cause. As Adrian looks back on their brief but seemingly happy marriage, disturbing secrets begin to surface. The divorces from his two previous wives had been amicable, or so it seemed; his children, all five of them, were resilient as ever, or so he thought. But something, or someone, must have pushed Maya over the edge. Fans of Liane Moriarty and Jojo Moyes will be captivated by this riveting family drama with a dark mystery at its core.
... Read moreThe Truth about Melody Browne
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 10, 2020
- Language: English
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3.87(17831 ratings)
When she was nine years old, Melody Browne’s house burned down, and it took all of her childhood memories with it. Now she’s a single mother of a teenage boy living in Central London. She hasn’t seen her parents since she left home at fifteen, but she doesn’t mind. She’s better off on her own. She works as a dinner lady at her son’s school and has no idea where her humdrum life is heading. But one summer’s night, a hypnotist inadvertently unlocks memories of her childhood, and her whole life is turned upside down. At first, these new memories mean nothing to her, but as Melody slowly begins to piece together the real story of her childhood, she begins to uncover mystery after mystery and wonders if she’ll ever know the truth about her past…
... Read moreThen She Was Gone
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 17, 2018
- Language: English
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4.07(371127 ratings)
Fifteen-year-old Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic summer vacation with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone. Now, her mother Laurel Mack is trying to put her life back together. It’s been ten years since her daughter disappeared, seven years since her marriage ended, and only months since the last clue in Ellie’s case was unearthed. So when she meets an unexpectedly charming man in a cafe, she is surprised at how quickly their flirtation develops into something deeper. Before she knows it, she’s meeting Floyd’s daughters-and his youngest, Poppy, takes her breath away. Looking at her is like looking at Ellie. And now, the unanswered questions she has tried so hard to put to rest haunt her anew…as well as some new ones about Floyd and Poppy…
... Read moreThirtynothing
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Helen Duff
- Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 03, 2019
- Language: English
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3.6(8649 ratings)
Ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into them twelve years later and realizing you still fancy them rotten.
That’s exactly what happens to Dig Ryan when he sees Delilah again. Now imagine you’re Nadine. You and Dig have been best friends for fifteen years. And you’ve finally realized that you’re in love with him. So when Delilah–who was always your nemesis–returns, you’re mad with jealousy and can’t help behaving childishly…like phoning Phil just to get your own first love back…
Thirty Nothing is a story of ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends, and friends dabbling with yesterday when they should really be thinking about today.
... Read moreVince and Joy
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 17, 2019
- Language: English
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3.82(3990 ratings)
From adolescent snogging to apartment shares, relationships, career crises and children, Vince and Joy is the unforgettable story of two lives lived separately but forever entwined. Back in the 80s, teenagers Vince and Joy met, fell desperately in love, parted, and never quite said goodbye.
Now, nearly twenty years later, they’ve both begun to ask themselves if that long-ago romance was the enduring love they’ve been searching for…
... Read moreWatching You
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister
- Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.92(92562 ratings)
“Quickly and assuredly, Jewell builds an ecosystem of countervailing suspicions…Tricky, clever, unexpected.” —New York Times Book Review
“Brace yourself as Jewell stacks up the secrets, then lights a long, slow fuse.” —People
“A seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama.” –A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
The instant New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Then She Was Gone delivers another suspenseful page-turner about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect “for fans of Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and Luckiest Girl Alive” (Library Journal).
Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It’s not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you.
As the headmaster credited with turning around the local school, Tom Fitzwilliam is beloved by one and all–including Joey Mullen, his new neighbor, who quickly develops an intense infatuation with this thoroughly charming yet unavailable man. Joey thinks her crush is a secret, but Tom’s teenaged son Freddie–a prodigy with aspirations of becoming a spy for MI5–excels in observing people and has witnessed Joey behaving strangely around his father.
One of Tom’s students, Jenna Tripp, also lives on the same street, and she’s not convinced her teacher is as squeaky clean as he seems. For one thing, he has taken a particular liking to her best friend and fellow classmate, and Jenna’s mother–whose mental health has admittedly been deteriorating in recent years–is convinced that Mr. Fitzwilliam is stalking her.
Meanwhile, twenty years earlier, a schoolgirl writes in her diary, charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr. Fitzwilliam…
In Lisa Jewell’s latest brilliant “bone-chilling suspense” (People) no one is who they seem–and everyone is hiding something. Who has been murdered–and who would have wanted one of their neighbors dead? As “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace” (Booklist, starred review), you will be kept guessing until the startling revelation on the very last page.