Lisa Jewell's first novel, Ralph’s Party, was published in 1999 and was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Since then she has published another twenty-three novels, most lately a number of dark psychological thrillers, including Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs and None of This is True. Lisa is a number one New York Times and Sunday Times author who has sold over ten million books worldwide and been published in more than thirty languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two daughters, Daisy, a Romanian rescue dog, and a mad orange cat called Ivy. @lisajewelluk on Twitter @lisajewelluk on Instagram @lisajewellofficial on Facebook.

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It was the night she almost died. 
 
Jane Trevally, newly divorced and feeling a little lost, agrees to accompany a man she doesn't know to his house in the darkest corner of Hampstead Heath. She's offered a drink, goes in, and then - a scream and the sound of something falling upstairs - Jane senses she's in a bad place. She runs. 
 
Twenty five years later, Jane finds herself outside the same house, this time to return a small white dog who's been found near her home in the country; a dog whose owner has just been reported missing. 
 
A fleeting glimpse of a haunted looking woman through the window sends Jane on a mission to uncover the house's secrets - secrets more terrifying than she could have ever imagined, especially when she realises it could have been her ... 
 
A missing woman, a dysfunctional family and dark, dark secrets ... Prepare to be hooked: it's the new Lisa Jewell thriller. 
 
 
Readers love Lisa Jewell: 
 
'Lisa Jewell is a STONE COLD GENIUS!' Marian Keyes 
 
‘Lisa Jewell is on top-form' Ruth Ware 
 
'Lisa Jewell is a genius' Sabine Durrant 
 
'Reading a Lisa Jewell is like putting yourself inside a pressure cooker - one that you don’t really want to get out of' Jojo Moyes 
 
'Nobody - nobody - does this better than Jewell' A.J. Finn 
 
'Lisa Jewell, the Queen of sick psychopaths, has outdone herself' Tammy Cohen

It Could Have Been Her

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 neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. 
 
You think your children are safe. 
 
But are they really? 
 
Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible? 
 
Utterly believable characters, a gripping story and a dark secret buried at its core: this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best.

The Girls

From the number one bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED 
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FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF INVISIBLE GIRL 
 
In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. 
 
In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. 
 
They've been dead for several days. 
 
Who has been looking after the baby? 
 
And where did they go? 
 
Two entangled families. 
A house with the darkest of secrets. 
A compulsive thriller from Lisa Jewell.

The Family Upstairs

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED BY THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM SUNDAY TIMES AND MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER LISA JEWELL 
 'Gripping. Shocking. Masterful.' FREIDA McFADDEN 
 
'A thrilling chilling work of genius.' CHRIS WHITAKER 
 
'Utterly absorbing, fiendishly clever and all-consuming' ANDREA MARA 
 
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He’s the perfect man. 
 
He says he loves you. 
 
You think he might even be made for you. 
 
Before long he’s moved into your house – and into your heart. 
 
And then he leaves for days at a time. You don’t know where he’s gone or who he’s with. 
 
And you realise – if you looked back – you’d say to yourself: 
 
DON’T LET HIM IN. 
 
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Praise for Don't Let Him In: 
 
'Lisa Jewell is a STONE COLD GENIUS! Don't Let Him In is a PHENOMENAL achievement' MARIAN KEYES 
 
'A taut, twisty masterclass of a thriller' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 
 
'A masterclass in suspense with one of the most chilling, unsettling villains I've encountered in a long time' ALEX MICHAELIDES 
 
'Hideously plausible and horribly unsettling' HARRIET TYCE 
 
‘A twisty mosaic of a thriller’ GILLIAN McALLISTER 
 
'Cancel all plans - this is a read-in-one-sitting book' ALICE FEENEY 
 
'I inhaled it within 24 hours. Stunning, shocking, superb.' LIZ NUGENT 
 
'Creepy, twisty, and compulsively readable. It hooked me from the first page and never let me go.’ EMILY HENRY 
 
'Lisa Jewell, the Queen of sick psychopaths, has outdone herself with Nick, and I am one hundred percent here for it!' TAMMY COHEN 
 
'Utterly brilliant' MARK EDWARDS 
 
'I adored the women, I loved the story, I loved the twists! A masterclass' SARAH PINBOROUGH 
 
 
Readers love Don't Let Him In!: 
 
'An absolute masterpiece that keeps you hooked from start to finish' 5-star reader review 
 
'Gripping, thrilling, jaw dropping, shocking, and twist filled!' 5-star reader review 
 
'Obsessed!' 5-star reader review 
 
'An absolute page turner' 5-star reader review 
 
'Twisty, fast paced, and just an overall enjoyable read' 5-star reader review 
 
'Very gripping, creepy, suspenseful' 5-star reader review 
 
'I could not put it down!' 5-star reader review

Don't Let Him In

The gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs. 
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Lydia, Robyn and Dean don't know each other - yet. 
 
They live very different lives but each of them, independently, has always felt that something is missing. 
 
What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. 
 
It is a letter containing a secret - one that will bind them together, and show them what love and family and friendship really mean... 
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Reader's can't get enough of The Making Of Us . . . 
 
***** 'Really gripping. Couldn't put it down.' 
***** 'Truly a great read for just about everyone.' 
***** 'Lisa Jewell is becoming one of my favourites. This is the third book of hers that I absolutely loved.' 
***** 'I loved the characters and the way the author unravel their stories.' 
***** 'I loved this book from the beginning.'

The Making of Us

A gripping family drama from the bestselling author

The brilliant novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Ralph's Party, Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs. 
 
'Poignant and heart-wrenching' The Sun 
'Jewell writes, as ever, with wit and verve' The Guardian 
'Well written and compelling' Daily Mail 
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Eleven years ago, Jem and Ralph fell in love. They thought it would be for ever, that they'd found their happy ending. 
 
Then two became four, a flat became a house. Romantic nights out became sleepless nights in. 
 
And they soon found that life wasn't quite so simple any more. 
 
Now two people who were so right together are starting to drift apart. As they try to find a way back to each other, back to what they once had, they both become dangerously distracted. 
 
But maybe it's not too late to recapture happily ever after . . . 
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Readers can't get enough of After the Party . . . 
 
***** 'Wow, I ended up LOVING this one' 
***** 'It's a fantastic book to sink your teeth into and it never gets dull' 
***** 'Lisa Jewell's books keep getting better' 
***** 'Aw. This is beautiful' 
***** 'Wow. I have never read a book that covered every aspect of human emotion, fallibility, forgiveness, acceptance, love and family life'

After the Party

The page-turning sequel to Ralph’s Party from the bestselling author

Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner. 
 
And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to them. 
 
To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark and Fox had spent the summer with Belle—but can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for Lark and Fox's new personas? 
 
Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a "better place", not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole generation of young people? 
 
Nothing is certain in Lisa Jewell's gripping and most imaginative novel yet. 
 
Breaking the Dark, the first book in the brand-new Marvel Crime series, introduces fans to a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe, and will continue with original novels featuring fan-favorite characters like Luke Cage, written by S.A. Cosby, and Daredevil, written by Alex Segura. 
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‘Tricksy, endlessly interesting and pure entertainment, don’t miss this one.' Gillian McAllister 
‘Fresh, lively, insightful—and the action scenes hit like a chop. A really cracking story.' AJ Finn 
‘Classic Lisa Jewell with an amazing twist!’ Jenny Colgan 
'Reveals the depth and complexity of one of the most fascinating and indomitable characters in the Marvel canon.' S. A. Cosby

Breaking the Dark

A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel

An uplifting, unforgettable story of two women in two different times from the Sunday Times bestselling author of After the Party, The Making of Us and The Family Upstairs. 
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London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caught up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return. 
 
Over half a century later, in the grungy mid-90s, her granddaughter Betty arrives in London. 
 
She can't wait to begin her new life. But before she can do so, she must find the mysterious woman named in her grandmother's will. 
 
What she doesn't know is that her search will uncover the heart-breaking secret that changed her grandmother's life, and might also change hers forever . . . 
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Readers love Before I Met You . . . 
 
***** 'LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book!' 
***** 'This was a thoroughly enjoyable novel and one that I can easily recommend.' 
***** 'If I say it reminded me of the best of JoJo Moyes, I mean it as a real compliment.' 
***** 'A marvellously written novel. Lisa Jewell is one of the best women writers.' 
***** 'It is an underrated book and definitely needs more attention.'

Before I Met You

A thrilling historical romance from the bestselling author

Another unforgettable psychological suspense novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs. 
 
'There are so many psychological thrillers around right now - but this is one of the best' The Sun 
'Wonderful, endlessly fascinating' Sophie Kinsella 
'Brilliantly plotted, beautifully written' Daily Mail 
____________You think you have the perfect life. 
 
You're successful. Attractive. Well liked. 
 
And you've just got married for the third time. 
 
But that's OK, because everyone's happy. Your children are happy. You're happy. And so is your new wife. 
 
But one tragic accident smashes your perfect life to pieces. Because everyone has secrets, and secrets have consequences. 
 
Some of which can be devastating. 
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Readers can't get enough of The Third Wife . . . 
 
***** 'This book blew me away...' 
***** 'Hair-raising Yes! Twitchy high-strung Plot Yes! Sinister Yes! Worth the time Totally Yes!' 
***** 'I texted my book mate to tell her, she MUST read this book.' 
***** 'I cannot recommend this highly enough.' 
***** 'Lisa Jewell knocked it out of the park with The Third Wife.'

The Third Wife

An unforgettable story about a family with a terrible secret. From the #1 bestselling author of Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs and None of This is True. 
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When a tragedy breaks a family apart, what can bring it back together? 
 
The Birds seem to be the perfect family: mother, father, four children, a picture-book cottage in the country. 
 
But one Easter weekend, something happens - something so unexpected, so devastating, that no one can bring themselves to talk about it. 
 
The family shatters, seemingly for good. 
 
Until, years later, they are forced to return to the house they grew up in, and to confront what really broke the family apart . . . 
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Readers can't get enough of The House We Grew Up In: 
 
***** 'I could NOT put it down!' 
***** 'A real page turner' 
***** 'It's one of the very best books I've read this year.' 
***** 'A fantastic novel' 
***** 'Lisa Jewel is an amazing writer'

The House We Grew Up In

She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. 
She had her whole life ahead of her. 
And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. 
 
Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet. 
 
But what really takes her breath away is when she meets his nine-year-old daughter. 
 
Because his daughter is the image of Ellie. 
 
Now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back. 
 
What really happened to Ellie? And who still has secrets to hide? 
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OVER 1,000 5* REVIEWS - this is why readers love this book: 
 
'Grips to the point of OBSESSION' 
'My life STOPPED while I read this book' 
'My heart was THUMPING in my chest' 
'This is EDGE OF YOUR SEAT reading' 
'This book left me BREATHLESS' 
'Cancel all plans and BUY THIS BOOK'

Then She Was Gone

'Mum, there's some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. Just for an hour or so. Is that OK?' 
 
Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim. 
 
At 11 p.m. she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30 a.m. Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home. 
 
Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place. 
 
Tallulah never returns. 
 
2018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence. 
 
A sign that says: DIG HERE . . .

The Night She Disappeared

You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. 
 
You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now you're crashing in your big brother's spare room. 
 
That's when you meet the man next door. 
 
He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. 
 
All the time. 
 
But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession. 
 
Or that someone is watching you.

Watching You

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED . . . 
 
Early morning: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. 
 
DCI Samuel Owusu quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago. 
 
Also inside the bag is a trail of clues which lead DCI Owusu to a mansion in Chelsea where thirty years previously three people lay dead, while a baby upstairs waited for someone to pick her up. 
 
Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family whose secrets can't stay buried for ever. 
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'I was ENTHRALLED. Empathetic, gripping, authentic' Gillian McAllister 
'A GRIPPING read. Superb!' Shari Lapena 
'Fast-paced, cleverly plotted. GRIPS from first page to last' Paula Hawkins 
'Artful, slippery, HUGELY SATISFYING. A rare treat awaits!' Louise Candlish 
'The story EVERYONE has been waiting for.' Adele Parks

The Family Remains

Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact birthday twins. 
 
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for Alix's series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. 
 
Alix agrees to a trial interview. Josie's life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can't quite resist the temptation to keep digging. 
 
Slowly Alix starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it Josie has inveigled her way into Alix's life - and into her home. 
 
Soon she begins to wonder who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?

None of This is True

A house on fire. 
A nine-year-old girl. 
Memories gone &hellip; 
 
Now in her early thirties, Melody Browne lives an ordinary life with her seventeen-year-old son. But she feels like something is missing. 
 
Her sense of belonging. 
 
And then fragments of her past start to come back. At first her memories mean nothing to her but slowly, day by day, she begins to piece together the real story of her childhood. 
 
But with every mystery she solves another one materialises, with every question she answers another appears. And Melody beings to wonder whether she will ever uncover the secrets of her past ...

The Truth About Melody Browne

You don't see her. But she sees you. From the #1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone comes an engrossing, twist-packed story of dark family secrets and betrayal. 
 
'Her best yet.' JOJO MOYES 
'Dark, furiously twisty and utterly gripping.' LUCY FOLEY 
'A masterclass in how to write with pace and tension.' HARRIET TYCE 
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MIDNIGHT. In the bad part of town, where cats prowl and foxes shriek, a girl is watching... 
 
When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides and watches him, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows. 
 
Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend. 
 
Nobody sees him. Nobody cares. 
 
But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's Day, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen. 
 
Accusing him. Holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance . . . 
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Readers can't get enough of Invisible Girl . . . 
 
***** 'Hot diggity dang!! Now that's what I been talking about!' 
***** 'There is more than one mystery to unravel here fans!!' 
***** 'Every time I thought I had figured out what was going on things changed again!' 
***** 'This book was crazy good. I couldn't read it fast enough' 
***** 'This suspenseful thriller will touch your heart and captivate you with the shocking conclusion!'

Invisible Girl

Two women. Twenty years of secrets. And a man who doesn't remember anything. 
 
Or does he? 
_____________________ 
 
'Fresh and intriguing, with characters so real I ached for them. I loved I Found You' 
Clare Mackintosh 
 
'I LOVED I Found You. A proper thriller with wonderful characters' 
Sabine Durrant 
_____________________ 
 
Everyone has secrets. What if you can't remember yours? 
 
'How long have you been sitting out here?' 
'I got here yesterday.' 
'Where did you come from?' 
'I have no idea.' 
 
Lily has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night, she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. 
 
Alice finds a man on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Against her better judgement, she invites him into her home. 
 
But who is he, and how can she trust a man who has lost his memory?

I Found You

THE SMASH-HIT STORY OF LOVE, 
FRIENDS AND FLATSHARES TURNS 25Meet the residents of 31 Alamanac Road . . .Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates. Nothing can come between them &ndash; until the gorgeous Jemima moves in. They&rsquo;re both falling for her, but which one of them does Jem want?Upstairs, Karl and Siobhan are happily unmarried and have been for fifteen years &ndash; until Cheri, in the flat above, fixes her sights on Karl. Why should a little problem like his girlfriend get in her way?Sooner or later it&rsquo;s all going to come to a head &ndash; and what better place for tears and laughter, break ups and make ups than Ralph&rsquo;s party?

Ralph's Party

The 25th anniversary edition of the smash-hit story of love, friends and flatshares

Bee Bearhorn had a number-one hit single in 1985 - and was never heard of again. Fifteen years later she is found dead in her flat and nobody seems to care ... 
 
But Ana Wills always day-dreamed about the exotic half-sister she hasn't seen in years. And when she comes to London to clear Bee's flat, she uncovers a life more exotic than she imagined: a secret country cottage, mysterious weekends away, and even a missing cat. 
 
With Bee's closest friends - mad Lol and strong, silent Flint - Ana sets out to discover exactly what did happen to Bee Bearhorn, the one-hit wonder ...

One-hit Wonder

'You know that was the best thing that ever happened to me, don't you?' 
She smiled. 'Me, too.' 
 
July, 1986. Vince and Joy have their whole lives ahead of them on the day they meet. Two weeks later they must part, each having lost a piece of their heart to the other. They won't see one another for seven years. 
 
Where will they be then? 
 
And in the years that follow? What will become of Vince and Joy?

Vince and Joy

The unforgettable bestseller from the No. 1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

Meet the Londons, a family in need of a friend ... 
 
Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points: 
 
Newly divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he really shouldn't; prize-winning novelist Sean's got a hot new girlfriend and a dose of writer's block; and Ned's just back from Australia, without the girl he took with him - or a clue what he's going to do with his life. 
 
If that wasn't enough for one household, the Londons also have a new lodger - a mysterious rockabilly called Gervase. Will he turn out to be a friend - or foe - to the family?

A Friend of the Family

The addictive and emotionally satisfying page-turner that will have you hooked

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 always was your nemesis - returns, you're mad with jealousy and can't help behaving childishly. Like phoning your first love Phil - just to get your own back... 
Thirtynothing is a story of ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends and friends dabbling with yesterday when they really should be thinking about today.

Thirtynothing

Leah and Toby have lived across the street from one another for years without meeting . . . and Leah has been itching to peek behind the front door of Toby's eccentric house, always packed to the rafters with weird and wonderful tenants. When fate finally lets her in, Leah finds that Toby needs her as much as she is surprised to realize she might need him. Sometimes life needs a helping hand and with a sprinkle of romance and their own special magic, Toby and Leah's dreams show the glimmer of a chance of coming true. 
 
31 Dream Street is a wonderfully warm and insightful novel that will capture the imagination and soothe the soul.

31 Dream Street

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