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.
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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Readers say *The Night She Disappeared* is a gripping, dark thriller with suspense and twists. Lisa Jewell’s alternating storylines and rich character...
Not my favorite Lisa Jewell. This is my fourth be this author and I am honestly surprised at how highly rated it is. The Family Upstairs and Then She was Gone remain my favorites. In this one I found there was too much jumping back and forth in time, too many plot holes, and at the same time a bit too much predictability.
At first it was hard to get into, this is the third Lisa Jewell novel I’ve read and her writing style jumps around from point of views in different timelines. This book made me angry but in a good way, it was frustrating because I wanted to tell Tallulah’s truth and save her the agony she was feeling. Once you got to the last 100 pages or so the story finally starts unraveling and every piece in the puzzle is put into place. Beautiful feel good ending.
I also love reading Lisa Jewell's books. This one was pretty goo. It started out great, started dragging for most of the middle but then got pretty good at the end. The ending was kinda sad which isn't normal in Thrillers I read but it was a pretty good ending. I gave it 4 stars because I started loosing interest in the middle and it made it hard to keep reading.
This was Lisa Jewell's covid book and it is sooo good. This is a great thriller with all the right ingredients: an abandoned mansion, secret tunnels, boarding school, clues in artwork, well developed characters. It is a dark and creepy story, like all her books, about a girl who mysteriously vanishes one night with her boyfriend. Told in alternating storylines (Jewell does this so well), a young couple goes out for a night out for the 1st time since the birth of their son. They leave their baby boy at home with her mom and meet up with some friends from the college at a local pub. The night takes a strange. different turn that neither Tallulah or Zach planned. The two never make it home. A year later, a new headmaster at the school arrives along with his crime-writer partner. When Sophie discovers a sign at the edge of property with the words "dig here", she gets caught up in the disappearance of the young couple. What really happened? Does somebody know something and is trying to communicate? This is a rich, dark, suspenseful tale with many twists and turns.
It all sort of unfolded exactly how you’d think. I was disappointed there wasn’t a better plot twist.
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