Name: The Night She Disappeared
Rating: 4.092814371257485 (167 reviews)
ISBN: 9781529125788

Lisa Jewell

The Night She Disappeared

'Lisa Jewell is one of my favourite writers and this is her best yet. I read it in 24 hours. Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first class thriller with heart.' LUCY FOLEY 'I'm calling it early. This is Lisa's best book yet, and she always sets that bar high! Stayed up so late because I couldn't put it down.' ADELE PARKS, author of Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck 'I love all Lisa's books, but The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.' HARLAN COBEN 'Mother of God, Lisa Jewell's on fire. The Night She Disappeared is UNBELIEVABLY good. I was utterly utterly agog.' MARIAN KEYES 'Insane suspense. I loved it.' LEE CHILD ___________________________ OUT NOW! The brand-new twisting page-turner from Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS and INVISIBLE GIRL '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 . . . ___________________________ A cold case. An abandoned mansion. A family hiding a terrible secret. Prepare to be hooked. Lisa Jewell's latest thriller is her best yet. 'Gripping and satisfying, this had me in tears at the end.' ALISON FLOOD, Guardian 'Clever, compelling and brilliantly observed. Loved it!' PAULA HAWKINS 'Oh my God, so good. A head-scratching, heart-racing, page-turning triumph - I think this might be my favourite Lisa Jewell yet.' LOUISE CANDLISH 'No one thickens a plot like Lisa Jewell. I couldn't put this book down. Jewell just keeps getting better. It's SO GOOD!' SHARI LAPENA 'I loved The Night She Disappeared. Had me hooked right to the end!' RUTH JONES 'Masterly. Gripping from start to finish.' JOANNE HARRIS 'Another first-class mystery . . . Totally enthralling.' HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange 'Totally absorbing. I felt as though I'd slipped into the book and lived there for a few days, heart pounding. So so so amazing!' KATHERINE HEINY, author of Early Morning Riser 'Jewell succeeds in maintaining suspense right to the end, exploring both masculine and feminine coercive control on the way.' THE TIMES 'I'm passionately attached to Lisa Jewell, whose novels somehow manage to be good-natured, creepy and tense all at once.' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex Serpent

The new thriller from the #1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

Was super enticing until the ending.. it felt like the ending was rushed & didn’t make as much sense as I was hoping. It almost felt like the author couldn’t decide what was gonna happen so she just made up the final storyline in the last 10 chapters lowkey

Robyn Harley

“Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart.” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author “Insane suspense.” —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author “Her best thriller yet.” —Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another riveting work of psychological suspense about a beautiful 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 area 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? With her signature “rich, dark, and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) prose, Lisa Jewell has crafted a dazzling work of suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page.

A Novel

The beginning was interesting, the end was great, the middle was hard to get through. Great ideas, interesting ending. Slowwww middle 

Abby

COMING JULY 2021 - the brand new thriller from Lisa Jewell It's nearly midnight and you're home alone with only your baby grandson for company. Your daughter and her boyfriend have gone out to a party; the first time they've been out since their son was born. And now you are waiting for them to come home. But they don't. The next morning, frantic, you ring your daughter's friends, and you're told that she was last seen heading to a party in an isolated village known as Dark Place ... An unsolved mystery, family secrets, a boarding school for difficult teenagers, and an unidentified body - watch out for the brand new Lisa Jewell hardcover in July 2021!

The New Thriller from the #1 Bestselling Author of the Family Upstairs

Joana Mae

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell — ★★★★☆ (4/5)<br /><br />Lisa Jewell delivers another gripping mystery that kept me turning pages late into the night. Each chapter felt like peeling back layers of an onion—small details that seemed insignificant at first eventually clicked into place, making the ending both satisfying and complete. All my suspicions and questions were answered, which made the resolution especially rewarding.<br /><br />It’s an easy read but not a light one; Jewell weaves in sensitive topics that deserve reader discretion when recommending. Still, the suspense and clever plotting kept me at the edge of my seat, and I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a well-crafted thriller with emotional depth.

“Insane suspense.” —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author “The Night She Disappeared is her best thriller yet.” —Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of “gloriously twisted” (Marie Claire) psychological suspense about a web of people whose lives are forever changed in the wake of a young couple’s disappearance. 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 area 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? With her signature “rich, dark, and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) prose, Lisa Jewell has crafted a dazzling work of suspense that will keep on the edge of your seat until the final page.

I like how even when you think you’ve got it with this author, you don’t 

 have it. Definitely recommend and would recommend narratively-speaking over None of this is true, though that audiobook production is a 5/5. 

Coley T

I like how even when you think you’ve got it with this author, you don’t totally have it. Definitely recommend and would recommend narratively-speaking over None of this is true, though that audiobook production is a 5/5. 

Rebecca Hurd

Such a great mystery!! Missing people, abandoned mansion, creepy clues, cold case!! It has it all with a bit of a twist at the end!!

Sandhya

Interesting plot and character dynamics. Enjoyed the mystery and trying to guess what happened. Not the most unique ending, but I enjoyed it.

Erin Goss

Katie Guo

good slow burn but the ending is very mediocre. the tense built up to it was far better than the conclusion.

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this was definitely an entertaining mystery! i had a few theories but i would’ve never guessed the ending. i liked this but took me a while to read it because of the pace 😅

I was beholden to this book, thinking about it all of the time. Wonderfully written across multiple timelines from multiple perspectives. 

Kate B-L

Holy f*ck.

I was beholden to this book, thinking about it all of the time. Wonderfully written across multiple timelines from multiple perspectives. 

Overall I enjoyed the story and it definetly kept me hooked, but it wasn‘t my favourite thriller I‘ve ever read 

Lili

I loved all the twists and turns and that I couldn’t predict the ending. Kept me interested the whole way through. The narrator was also good at differentiating characters which was nice! 

Melissa Olson

Very interesting concept. I know the characters were intended to be insufferable but wow they were awful. So many truly terrible people in this book. 

I was not expecting the ending to be what it was and was pleasantly surprised at the twist. It was a bit slow-starting but once I was hooked I was HOOKED. So many people had a hand in the terrible sadness that was Talulah’s life. Throughout the book Mimi was largely an insignificant character so I was not expecting for her to play the role she did. I couldn’t help but think all that poor Talulah cold have been spared if Mimi would have spoken out about that night. 

I thought it was a bit funny how a detective novelist contributed to solving the mystery more than the police did. They literally could not have done it without her and I appreciated the very competent contributions she made to the case and emotional support she offered to Kim. 

I’m still deciding if I’m happy with Liam getting off clean for what he did for Scarlett, but I was proud of him in the end for his much needed defiance of her orders disguised as pleads. I was happy Kim, Talulah, and Noah got the ending they so desperately deserved and was warmed to see a family united.

Payten Bovat

Very interesting concept. I know the characters were intended to be insufferable but wow they were awful. So many truly terrible people in this book. 

I was not expecting the ending to be what it was and was pleasantly surprised at the twist. It was a bit slow-starting but once I was hooked I was HOOKED. So many people had a hand in the terrible sadness that was Talulah’s life. Throughout the book Mimi was largely an insignificant character so I was not expecting for her to play the role she did. I couldn’t help but think all that poor Talulah cold have been spared if Mimi would have spoken out about that night. 

I thought it was a bit funny how a detective novelist contributed to solving the mystery more than the police did. They literally could not have done it without her and I appreciated the very competent contributions she made to the case and emotional support she offered to Kim. 

I’m still deciding if I’m happy with Liam getting off clean for what he did for Scarlett, but I was proud of him in the end for his much needed defiance of her orders disguised as pleads. I was happy Kim, Talulah, and Noah got the ending they so desperately deserved and was warmed to see a family united.

Linzy Martin

This book starts slow but picks up and has you asking questions. However compared to her other books this one was a bit more predictable. Still a great read

Millie Roberts

I know they were intended that way but my god were some of the characters insufferable

Kristen Claiborn

** spoiler alert **
            I get all excited when one of the celebrity book clubs picks a book by an author I enjoy reading, so when Good Morning America picked this book as one of it’s buzzreads, I was super happy. I even wrote “YAY” next to it in my book planner (yep, I have an entire planner just to keep track of my books). I also happened to get this one off a library hold right before a weekend, so I had all the time in the world to dig in and absorb this one. I’m not sure if I was disappointed in how long it took me to read this (about two hours), or that it had to end. That’s the best way for me to determine how much I love a book, the way it completely absorbed me and refused to allow me the opportunity to get anything done until I’m finished. This book earned an enthusiastic five stars from me! 
 When the writer entered the picture and started piecing together the clues, I was almost positive that the girlfriend was dead and the boyfriend was off living the good life with the rich unpleasant young woman. That guy was an absolute jerkface almost from the very beginning, so it was easy for me to assume he was the bad guy and that poor girl was worm food. I was completely mistaken, but it wasn’t the other way around either. The end completely shocked me, which is one of the reasons I absolutely love Lisa Jewell’s books. She’ll keep you on the edge of your seat and still manage to shock you at the end. She is a master thriller-writer.

Marcie Allen

McKenzie McWhorter

Lisa Jewell wrote an impressive tale this time. The first half is a bit of a slow burn but it really helps build a foundation and help you get attached to the characters, after that it's a slippery slope of I can't put this book down. I loved all the twists and how she tied up the story lines.

My colleague recommended it to me; this was the first book I read after my reading-slump and I finished it in two days. It was a real page-turner and although maybe a bit predictable at times I enjoyed reading it.

Hanna 

Dee B. 

I saw the the act and the who done it. But the why was a mystery to me. OK ok. I see you Lisa

Emilia Rose

I absolutely loved this book! Definitely my favorite Lisa Jewell book to date. It doesn’t say it anywhere in the preview, but there is a sapphic romance to the novel, which of course just made me love it more!! The plot was very well developed and even though I tried to guess at the ending a few times, none of my guesses were correct. She truly knows how to take a mystery and turn it into something absolutely breathtaking.

Kaytlynn Friesen

This would be a 5 star read if the beginning wasn't so long and boring. It felt like it took forever to get to the actual story. I even put the book down for awhile.
Otherwise this book was beautifully written  & the story is like none other. 

Krista M.

Sinking-Circling-Haunting.
This was an interesting read and a pretty gripping mystery. The author did a good job of making you care that these young parents disappeared without a trace. The back and forth was a good way of keeping the pace moving along but I kind of felt like a lot of the book was spent on characters that I just didn't connect with or really care that much about. I wasn't able to guess the ending until pretty far in which is by design as the reader is given almost no information until very near the end. I feel like I finished this mostly because I was just very curious about what the heck happened and not because I cared what happened to the characters. 

Samantha Kalany Hughes

** spoiler alert **
           Holy Shit!

This was insane. I am a huge Lisa Jewell fan, and always have been ever since I read And Then She Was Gone. The Night She Disappeared reminded me of that book in many ways, except I feel the characters in this book got their chance at a bittersweet/yet happy ending of sorts. 

The first couple of chapters paint a picture that the "she" in question is Tallulah because of all the media/police attention that her mother brings to the picture, but as I crept towards the end of the book, I feel as though the book was titled from the perspective of Liam's view in regards to his "beloved" Scarlett. She left him and his purpose fell to the depths of the swimming pool on the cover... I'd be interested in seeing if anyone else feels the same way about this theory??? 

Overall, I hold so much respect and love for Lisa Jewell's works, and will definitely be adding this one to my recommendation list. 

5/5

The Night She Disappeared

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