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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.

'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 . . . 
 
'By far her best thriller yet.' Harlan Coben 
'Insane suspense. I loved it.' Lee Child 
'A gothic, multi-layered tale, deeply satisfying. We both loved it.' Richard &amp; Judy Book Club pick 
'UNBELIEVABLY good. I was utterly utterly agog.' Marian Keyes 
'No one thickens a plot like Lisa Jewell. I couldn't put this book down ... It's SO GOOD!' Shari Lapena 
'Compelling, deep, surprising, tense, modern.' Gillian McAllister 
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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 . . . 
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Readers can't get enough of The Night She Disappeared . . . 
 
***** 'Strong emotive storytelling at its best.' 
***** 'Who is Lisa Jewell and where has she been all my life? I would rank &ldquo;Disappeared&rdquo; as the best suspense/thriller novel I&rsquo;ve read this year.' 
***** 'This book will suck you in, chew you up and leave you feeling exhausted&hellip;.but in the most delicious tormented way possible.' 
***** 'An absolutely heart gripping and page turning story, I couldn't seem to put it down.' 
***** 'Addictive from start to finish!' 
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'Masterly. Gripping from start to finish.' Joanne Harris 
'This is Lisa's best book yet, and she always sets that bar high! I couldn't put it down.' Adele Parks 
'A head-scratching, heart-racing, page-turning triumph.' Louise Candlish 
'I loved this one so much - clever, slick and so intriguing. Lots of emotion and I love how all the sub-plots come together.' Mel Sherratt 
'Another first-class mystery . . . Totally enthralling.' Harriet Tyce 
'I predict another number one.' Erin Kelly 
'I was superglued to the pages.' Mark Edwards 
'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 
'Intriguing and wonderfully dark' The Sun 
'Good-natured, creepy and tense all at once.' Sarah Perry 
'Nail-biting. Left me reeling.' Jane Corry 
'A compelling psychological thriller full of twists and turns... ideal for fans of Ruth Rendell and Lianne Moriarty' YOURS book club 
 
Lisa Jewell's books have sold over 5 million copies across all formats [Nielsen Bookscan, May 2024] 
Lisa Jewell, Number One Sunday Times bestseller, March 2024

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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