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The Night She Disappeared

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I love all Lisa's books, but The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.

Lisa has certainly done it again with another first class mystery. It's got it all - captivating characters, a mysterious mansion in the woods and a burning question set up from the start to draw the reader in. I just had to know what happened next. Totally enthralling.

Lisa Jewell has made a thriller out of my favourite literary ingredients. Abandoned mansion [tick]. Sex [tick]. Boarding school [tick]. SECRET TUNNELS [tick]. Kick-ass matriarch [tick]. Clues in paintings [tick]. I predict another number one.

Absolutely loved this one by Lisa Jewell - compelling, deep, surprising, tense, modern. Most thrillers are in black and white to me in terms of character and Lisa is blazing saturated technicolour.

The only thing predictable about this ending is how unpredictable it is.

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NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER: the brand new twisting page turner from Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS and INVISIBLE GIRL 
 
DON'T GO NEAR THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS... 
 
It's late at night and Kim is waiting. Her daughter, Tallulah, is out on a date, and hasn't returned. 
 
Desperate to find out where she might be, Kim contacts her friends, and discovers that Tallulah was last seen heading to a party at a house in the woods. 
 
The locals call it Dark Place. 
 
Two years on, the mystery of Tallulah's disappearance remains unsolved. But could a note discovered in the woods lead to the truth about what happened that night? 
 
A note reading 'DIG HERE' . . . 
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A cold case brought back to life. An abandoned mansion full of dark secrets. A terrible family trauma. 
Lisa Jewell's latest novel could be her best yet.

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
"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 11pm she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30am 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. 
 
'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 
 
'No-one tells stories like this better than Lisa Jewell ... she gets right into it, doesn't mess about, puts real-seeming characters with rich interior lives through 350 pages of insane suspense - and then hits us with an ending we never saw coming. I love it.' LEE CHILD 
 
'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 
 
'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 
 
'Masterly. Gripping from start to finish.' JOANNE HARRIS 
 
'I swear her books are masterclasses for authors. Every time I read one, I'm in awe. I loved this one so much - clever, slick and so intriguing. Lots of emotion and I love how all the sub-plots come together. #bowdowntoLisa' MEL SHERRATT 
 
'Another first class mystery . . . Totally enthralling.' HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange 
 
'I predict another number one.' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said, She Said 
 
'Once again Lisa Jewell has knocked it out of the park. Another masterclass in thriller writing from one of the world's most consistently brilliant authors. I was superglued to the pages' MARK EDWARDS, author of Here to Stay 
 
'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 
 
'Absolutely loved this one by Lisa Jewell - compelling, deep, surprising, tense, modern. Most thrillers are in black and white to me in terms of character and Lisa is blazing saturated technicolour.' GILLIAN MCALLISTER, author of Everything But the Truth 
 
'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 
 
'Nail-biting. Left me reeling' JANE CORRY 
 
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Lisa Jewell's first novel, Ralph’s Party, was published in 1999 and was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Since then she has published another twenty-three novels, most lately a number of dark psychological thrillers, including Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs and None of This is True. Lisa is a number one New York Times and Sunday Times author who has sold over ten million books worldwide and been published in more than thirty languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two daughters, Daisy, a Romanian rescue dog, and a mad orange cat called Ivy. @lisajewelluk on Twitter @lisajewelluk on Instagram @lisajewellofficial on Facebook.

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I love all Lisa's books, but The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.

Lisa has certainly done it again with another first class mystery. It's got it all - captivating characters, a mysterious mansion in the woods and a burning question set up from the start to draw the reader in. I just had to know what happened next. Totally enthralling.

Lisa Jewell has made a thriller out of my favourite literary ingredients. Abandoned mansion [tick]. Sex [tick]. Boarding school [tick]. SECRET TUNNELS [tick]. Kick-ass matriarch [tick]. Clues in paintings [tick]. I predict another number one.

Absolutely loved this one by Lisa Jewell - compelling, deep, surprising, tense, modern. Most thrillers are in black and white to me in terms of character and Lisa is blazing saturated technicolour.

The only thing predictable about this ending is how unpredictable it is.

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