As the novel reaches its climax, the chapters get shorter in a frantic race between the two- Kim discovering the truth, and Tallulah living it. The story alternates between the present where Kim tries to find out what happened to her daughter, and the past from Tallulah's perspective as she moves toward that fateful night. As the pages go by, more questions arise, and other characters get pulled into the story, each, it seems, hiding a piece of the puzzle. Kim's sense of loss is palpable and the mystery behind the disappearance is unbelievably compelling. She knows that despite her youth, despite how hard it is to be a young mother, Tallulah would never abandon her baby. When teen mother Tallulah goes missing, the police assume she's made a break for it, cast off responsibility for her baby and ran away with her boyfriend. The difference here is in the vivid characters, in how Kim and Tallulah come to life on the page.
This one begins with the plot of countless other mystery/thrillers: a daughter goes missing, leaving behind a distraught mother who will do anything to find her. Jewell's best books are the ones that make you fall hard for the characters so you can't do anything else until you've found out what happened to them.
The Night She Disappeared is an excellent thriller, steeped in mystery and drama, with a strong emotionally-compelling mother/daughter love story at its core. I found it absolutely riveting and impossible to put down. “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.At this point I have read six Lisa Jewell books, but this one is my favourite. 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.”Ĭould this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple? And what exactly is buried in this haunted ground? One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. 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. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone 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.
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