A Beautiful Family

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A New York Times Best Thriller of 2025

“I absolutely loved this page-turning family mystery and didn’t want it to end. . . An extraordinary, exquisitely written debut.” –Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of Here One Moment

At ten years old, she catches more than her parents and older sister suspect. Over their summer break, her mother plans to finish her novel, her father wants to grill and watch cricket, and her fifteen-year-old sister hopes to catch the eye of a local lifeguard. With everyone around her distracted, she teams up with a new friend to solve a mystery that haunts this vacation community: they’ll close the case of what happened to Charlotte, a child who was presumed drowned two years earlier.

But things aren’t quite as they seem, and as the children look for clues, they inadvertently dislodge information they wish they’d never uncovered. Are her parents happy together? Is her sister putting her trust in the wrong people? Is their vacation rental as safe as it seems? And when someone else goes missing, the family find themselves at the center of an urgent police investigation.

Debut novelist Jennifer Trevelyan viscerally captures the confusion and frustration of childhood, the fraught but unshakeable bond between sisters, and the dangers that lurk in the white lies we tell–especially about the people we love most.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Jennifer Trevelyan
Published: 06/24/2025
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385551359
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 1.30″ H x 8.30″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
With a background in photography and children’s publishing, JENNIFER TREVELYAN is now a full-time writer living in Wellington, New Zealand, with her husband, son, daughter, dog and cat. When not at her writing desk, Jennifer can be found in the garden.