The Night She Disappeared: A Novel
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True 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.
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Such a great domestic and psychological thriller!
All the twist and turns were so good and the slow revelations of secrets were so worth it. I will have a full review up on the lit buzz soon!
All the twist and turns were so good and the slow revelations of secrets were so worth it. I will have a full review up on the lit buzz soon!
This is the second book by the author I have read and I really enjoy her writing mystery style. The aspects of each narrative and the twists make it a good travel book. I especially enjoyed the ending.
I’ve read a few books by Lisa Jewell and this one is my favorite! It bounces back and forth between different timelines and eventually two overlap and continue m. Such anticipation as it continues to get closer to the night it happened! It keeps you guessing the whole time what happened, how did it happen, how does it end??
Read it in two days! Another thriller in my month of May thrillers!
Read it in two days! Another thriller in my month of May thrillers!
Although my girlfriend enjoyed this tremendously, it was just ok to me. I won’t be revisiting this again in future - at all!
woof I couldn't put this book down. It drew me in from the first chapter and I had to keep reading until I got all the way to the end. I've read another book by this author and she has this way of pulling you in and building tension with each additional chapter until you feel like you're about to burst if you don't find out what happens right now. She also writes some great fucked up (and normal) characters, which is a staple of mine.
I loved the developing friendship (partnership?) between Sophie and Kim, I thought that was super cute. Also, Sophie wasn't being annoying about things like a lot of rogue citizen-turned-detectives I've read about - she actually shared the information she found and turned things over to the police instead of trying to do it all herself, which always annoys tf out of me. ALSO ||Zach totally deserved to die and I'm not sad about it at all sorry not sorry.|| c: How it happened wasn't ideal, but too bad.
I was fascinated by Scarlett's character given everything and how big a role she ended up playing. I'm still unsure if I think her feelings were real or not - I'm inclined to say that they were, but she was just ||holding onto Tallulah the only way she knew how because of how she'd grown up.|| In a way, she feels like a ||victim of her mother|| as well, just not in the same way as the other characters. I want to find out more about what happens to her moving forward even though I know I won't.
Finally, I'm proud of myself that I was halfway correct about what happened on ~that night. I didn't anticipate all of it, but I definitely got half of it right. I'm not always great at figuring out mystery books before the end (which is why I need reading spoilers), so I'm proud of myself. It made sense without being too obvious or stupid, and the buildup made the climax actually make sense rather than come out of nowhere, which can happen when authors try and make something shocking without using the rest of the book to work for it.
(Oh also I'm glad the dog will be okay!)
I loved the developing friendship (partnership?) between Sophie and Kim, I thought that was super cute. Also, Sophie wasn't being annoying about things like a lot of rogue citizen-turned-detectives I've read about - she actually shared the information she found and turned things over to the police instead of trying to do it all herself, which always annoys tf out of me. ALSO ||Zach totally deserved to die and I'm not sad about it at all sorry not sorry.|| c: How it happened wasn't ideal, but too bad.
I was fascinated by Scarlett's character given everything and how big a role she ended up playing. I'm still unsure if I think her feelings were real or not - I'm inclined to say that they were, but she was just ||holding onto Tallulah the only way she knew how because of how she'd grown up.|| In a way, she feels like a ||victim of her mother|| as well, just not in the same way as the other characters. I want to find out more about what happens to her moving forward even though I know I won't.
Finally, I'm proud of myself that I was halfway correct about what happened on ~that night. I didn't anticipate all of it, but I definitely got half of it right. I'm not always great at figuring out mystery books before the end (which is why I need reading spoilers), so I'm proud of myself. It made sense without being too obvious or stupid, and the buildup made the climax actually make sense rather than come out of nowhere, which can happen when authors try and make something shocking without using the rest of the book to work for it.
(Oh also I'm glad the dog will be okay!)
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