The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
There Are No Happy Loves by Sergio Olguín,
translated by Miranda France
translated by Miranda France
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Till Death Do Us Part by John Dickson Carr
It’s a truism that a sequel will always be inferior to the original, unless it is the universally acknowledged exception, The Godfather: Part II. Or, if you consider it a sequel rather than a spin-off, the recently concluded, much-lauded Better Call Saul.
The same holds for books. Plenty of readers become so fixated on an original work, like a cherished first crush, that they consider it sacrilege for a writer to revisit it. But I’m glad English writer Lisa Jewell decided to have another go at the characters she introduced in 2019’s The Family Upstairs. There was something hauntingly ambiguous about Henry and Lucy Lamb that invited another look.
