It’s 2017. Tallulah is a 19 year old college student who has a baby with her boyfriend, Zach. Both are living with her mum, Kim. Tallulah makes friends with a wealthy student, Scarlett, who is ‘queen bee’ . Tallulah and Zach go missing after a party at Scarlett’s and there is nothing to indicate where they have gone and why.

It’s 2019 and Sophie and her boyfriend have moved into a cottage at an exclusive school where he is to be the new head teacher. One morning Sophie, a published author, discovers a sign at the bottom of the garden that states “DIG HERE” which she does, discovering evidence in the still unsolved missing persons case for Tallulah and Zach.

The novel switches between Sophie and Tallulah, both stories coming together to finally explain not only what happened after the party at Scarlett’s, but the stories that led all parties to it.

This was, to repeat what has been said in many reviews so far, a slow burner. However, it mainly kept my interest throughout, although I did get frustrated with the repetitive issues in Tallulah’s life (although I remember being a teenager and it is always ‘me me me’). I think the only person I had any sympathy for was Kim, the pain of holding out that your missing daughter will return, plus the stress of having to raise your grandchild.

The end, well, I hate to say it but I predicted it and it disappointed me because I found it ridiculous and a bit of a let down.

However, this aside, if you like slow-burner thrillers then this is a solid read.

Lisa Jewell never fails mind does she! Another fantastically written book with characters jumping off the page and a plot that gripped me so hard! I’m moving house at the moment so it took me a little longer to read but every moment I wasn’t reading it I wanted to get back to it! I loved the plot twists it really kept me wanting to know more. Another 5 star smash in my opinion. Thanks to Netgalley, the author and Century for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

I’d like to thank NetGalley and Penguin Random House for approving me for an ARC of this book. I have read two of Lisa Jewell’s previous books and loved them so I was very excited to start this one.

In true Lisa Jewell fashion the story was told from several POV and flicked between current events and the events of that night. By the end of the first chapter I was hooked! I had to know what happened to Tallulah, as a mother I know nothing would stop me from getting back to my child so something horrendous must of happened.

Tallulah had nothing but sympathy from me throughout the story. She was a genuine, kind hearted girl who didn’t want to hurt anyone. Being a mother at the age of nineteen had really taken its toll on her and whilst she had a very supportive mum I really couldn’t blame her for feeling confused. Her relationship with Zach was toxic and heading in a very dangerous direction. I’ve often thought the psychological torture can be worse than the physical because it is all that harder to prove. Unfortunately what Tallulah didn’t realise, until it was too late, was how manipulative the people in her life were.

We had a brilliant cast of character but I really enjoyed the role that Sophie played in the whole investigation, it was refreshing to have a character aid the police rather than make themselves a nuisance. The friendship she developed with Kim was very touching too and her final interview in Denmark was brilliant.

The entire story was impossible to put down. Secrets, lies, manipulation were all at the centre of this brilliant read and the final revelation was spine tingly! It’s very hard to review without giving too much away so you’ll just have to trust me when I say you need to read this book! This has got to be some of Lisa Jewell’s best work yet which only makes me excited for her next one!

Unfortunately for me, not my favourite Lisa Jewell book. Takes ages to get going in my opinion. About 70% in and things fet interesting.

Most books tend to have a past and present angle to tell and so does this one but this one has a last year and current year. I have begun to realise that I don't enjoy the narrative to be in this format (I dont know what its called) but I prefer the first person narrative (is that right?) which is another bugbear about this book.

I totally understand that authors are obviously struggling to write during a global pandemic so I'm sure I'll enjoy future ones more.

In 2017, Tallulah is a 19 year old student with a baby, living with the baby's father, Zach, at her mother's house. Things are not perfect but when Tallulah & Zach leave for a date night at the local pub, her mother Kim never dreams that she won't see Tallulah again. As the hours pass & turn into days, Kim knows that something bad has happened to Zach & her daughter. She goes to see the family at the house, Dark Place, where the two teenagers were last seen, but they tell her that the couple phoned for a taxi & left in the early hours. Kim calls the police but Tallulah & Zach seem to have disappeared into thin air. Almost 2 years later, Sophie & her partner, Shaun, move into the village & their cottage backs onto the woods near Dark Place. Sophie goes out for a walk the next day & sees a note fastened to a tree which says 'DIG HERE'.

The book is mainly told from Sophie's 2019 point of view & Tallulah's back in 2017. It is such a great read with unexpected twists & turns & it turned out completely different from my original hypothesis. The pacing is great too, it starts off as a slow burn but gradually builds into a jaw-dropping finale. I have a couple of books from the author in the TBR list & they will definitely be moved to the top of the list after reading this one. I really can't find any negatives about it at all.

Thanks to NetGalley & publishers, Random House UK/Cornerstone, for the opportunity to read an ARC.

I absolutely love Lisa Jewell’s books, I had missed out on reviewing ‘The Family Upstairs’ so I was thrilled when I was approved for ‘The Night She Disappeared’.

The book tells the story of young parents Tallulah and Zach that disappear on a night out in 2018.
It is told in three different people perspectives and three different times: Tallulah’s story before the night in question, Kim’s after they disappear and Sophie’s in the present time when she gets involved and try and help solve the mistery.

The book kept me hooked all the way through, and the ending was a total surprise! Can’t wait for the next book, Lisa!!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK for letting me review this book.

I have heard so many great reviews about this author and have four books on my ever growing tbr pile but this is actually my first Lisa Jewell book. 😲
I absolutely loved this! Whilst it took me a little while to get into I was so gripped by the last part of the book I was desperate to keep reading.

A young couple Tallulah and Zack both disappear without a trace after a night out. They leave behind their one year old son whom they both adore. The young people they were with have no recollection of what has happened to them.The story is told by Tallulah and her mum and by Sophie who has recently moved to the village and (as a crime novelist) gets drawn in to the case. It jumps in a dual time line from the period before the disappearance to the present day (a year later.)

The reader meets multiple characters as the story unfolds who are all somehow linked to the case.
Everyone thinks that the young couple had been struggling with parenting and had simply run off together but Kim knows Tallulah would never leave her son.

There are so many twists it is impossible to know who is genuine and who knows/is involved in the disappearance. The tension builds, with a brilliant plot line, until everything is revealed in one of the best endings to a book I have read in a long time. I love it when all my questions have been thoroughly answered by the end!

This is a brilliant psychological thriller and I will definitely be reading the rest of Lisa Jewell's books.

As always, I really enjoyed this book, I don’t think I’ve ever read any of Lisa Jewell’s that I haven’t enjoyed.
The Night She Disappeared is a story of complex friendship, relationships, peer pressure, love and resentment. I couldn’t put this book down!

A gripping and intriguing psychological mystery, The Night She Disappeared has all the classic traits of a Jewell novel: a compelling lead character, a dark and chilling crime, and a house with a story to tell. Just like with her other books, you can feel the walls beating from the tension inside, bursting for the truth to come out.

But while I love Lisa Jewell‘s writing and dark storylines, I don’t always get on with her characters, which has meant that her bibliography has seen a mix of ratings from me. The Night She Disappeared, however, feels very close to the tone of Then She Was Gone, my favourite Jewell book, so I really enjoyed this one.

The story alternates between the past from Tallulah’s, the night of the disappearance from Kim’s perspective, and the present from Sophie’s perspective, as their roads weave together to unravel the mystery of Tallulah’s disappearance. But with many points of view and timelines, Jewell never goes off track and leaves you hanging with every chapter.

There are so many possibilities for this story to go down so it’s not an easy one to predict. The only thing that you will be certain of is your desperation for Kim to find out what happened to her daughter. Jewell completely absorbs you in her characters and their emotions, and the mystery of what’s gone on is sure to have you hooked.

I feel like it could have gone a little darker, especially with the prologue describing the definition of arachnophobia, and that the ending could have been more action-packed. But what I love about Jewell’s stories is that she instils a fear in you that feels very real, not going too far to make you believe that this could actually be happening and that it’s very possible for people to get away with such actions.

Well-paced and astutely plotted, this will not let fans of Lisa Jewell down and is a brilliant place to start if you are yet to experience one of her unforgettable stories.

Always love a book by the author!

Teenage parents Tallula and Zach disappear after a night out without trace. The last people to see them are a group of college friends of Tallula’s who fail to be able to cast any light on the couple’s disappearance. Rumours circulate that the pair have run away unable to cope with the demands of being young parents to babyNoah however, Kim, Tallula’s mum, is adamant that neither would willingly leave their child behind and believes there is something more sinister about their disappearance than anyone is letting on.

This story unfolds from different characters points of view and keeps you reading and guessing until the end. The despair of Tallula’s mum, Kim is palpable whilst trying to care for her young grandchild and hitting brick walls in her search for her daughter.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

There was certainly lots going on in this book. I did however find all the jumping around with the time frames and different characters a bit brain scrambling. I had to keep concentrating ,it kept me on my toes ! The story was good though and worth all the jumping around. Good book, well worth a read.

I am not going to attempt any verbose review.
THIS BOOK IS SUPERB, NEVER LETS UP, HAS TWISTS AND A GOOD ENDING. DON'T MISS IT!!!

Wow! wow! wow! what a book, totally loved it. A must read.
A gripping story over 3 time periods and told from 3 points of view.
Plenty of twists to keep you guessing.
Lisa's best book yet.

Thanks to NetGalley and Cornerstone for giving me an advance copy.

The intrigue never lets up in this fabulous new novel from Lisa Jewell, told from multiple points of view and a dual time line. This creates a wonderful tension as the cosy mystery writer Sophie finds herself involved in the mystery of what happened to Tallulah and Zach two years earlier. As different characters are introduced and viewed through the perspective of Tallulah and Sophie, I was wonderfully unsettled and unsure who or what to trust. The tension builds palpably as the novel progresses, and the final coruscating chapters are amazing, demonstrating Lisa Jewell's exceptional talent in this genre.

My thanks go to the publishers and Net Galley for the advance copy in return for an honest review.

I'm a firm fan of L Jewell but I found her last book tricky. This one is right up there and perhaps even her best to date. The mother is beautifully drawn. Her fear and anguish shared by the reader every step of the way. The ending was everything I'd hoped. Ten stars.

Well this is the first Lisa Jewell book I have read and it certainly won’t be the last! I have seen so many people rave about her previous books - I even have some of them in my to read pile but when I was offered an advanced copy of this through the publishers and NetGalley I knew it was time to pop my cherry!

The premise of the story is that 19 year old teen mother Tallulah is in an unhappy relationship with controlling boyfriend Zach and so begins an affair with a mysterious enigmatic rich girl called Scarlett. However after a pool party at Scarlett's house, Tallulah and Zach both go missing. Initially the police believe that the two young parents have ran away due to the stresses of being young parents and don’t really spend any time investigating. However a year later a new headteacher starts at the school in the village and his crime novelist girlfriend immediately becomes involved in investigating the suspicious disappearance.

The story jumps around from before the disappearance, the night of the pool party and current time. I'm useless at keeping track of times but I found it pretty easy to follow. I have given this book a full five stars as I just couldn’t put it down and raced through it. my mind was jumping around with theories about what had happened and who had done what. I think the only thing I could mark it down on was there was a few errors which annoyed me - such as Tallulah turning her phone off only to pick it up seconds later when she gets a message. However as this is an ARC copy then I cannot say if these will be in the final draft so I gave the full five stars and I cannot wait to read another Lsa Jewell book!

Tallulah Murray is a young mum who stays with her mother Kim and her boyfriend Zach. One night they leave baby Noah with Kim to go on a long overdue date night at the local pub, neither return...

The book is written from 3 perspectives - Tallulah's before she went missing, Kim's in the days after her daughter didn't come home and Sophie (the new headteachers' partner) who moves to the area a little over a year after the teenagers went missing. As the book progresses Kim and Sophie's timelines join as they team up to try and discover what happened that night, after a sign appears at Sophie's back gate saying "dig here".

The book is well written, a fast paced story and the chapters are a good length to squeeze in between stuff you really should be doing but are putting off to read a bit more of the book... The characters are believable, some likeable, some not. I liked how it was possible to take a guess at the mystery and work out some of the clues, and tying up some loose ends made me smile at the end (the smoke smell, clever!).

I've liked all of Lisa Jewell's books I've read, although some more than others. This one is definitely one of the best.

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This was a great thriller, where being drip fed information slowly but surely made for such an excellently plotted book.
I thought it was so easy to get into, the characters were easily likeable and told from different time frames meant a picture was slowly being put together of what happened on the night Tallulah and Zack went missing.
There was a small town feel to this book, secrets were being held and as with all
Lisa Jewell’s books the story has you hooked with page turning reveals and twists.
This is a story about relationships, love, lust and control of others and the secrets that people keep. The theme of motherly love was strong and I found the different perspectives of that characters stories really engaging.
Another excellent read - 4 stars and thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this book in return for an honest review.

Young parents, Tallulah and Zach, have a rare night out together while nanna, Kim, is babysitting. But they never come home and appear to have disappeared without a trace. Then a new couple move into the village and come across a strange sign to ‘dig here’…

This had me on the edge of my seat constantly! It’s told through a mix of voices and timelines and, as with any good thriller, the story unfolds slowly but shockingly. I don’t want to give away any spoilers but this book deals with some really important issues as well as being an awesome thriller.

I didn’t give this 5 stars because I felt like towards the end things got a little far-fetched for me. But otherwise a fantastic read that I definitely recommend!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in return for an honest review.

Thanks to netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Another great book from Lisa,

In 2017 a 19 year old couple (Tallulah and Zach) disappear following a night out leaving their 1 year old boy behind. Tullulah’s mother does everything she can to try and find out what happened on that night. Fast forward to 2019 when Sophie a murder mystery novelist moves in with her headteacher boyfriend into a boarding school in the village where the couple were last seen. Sophie she’s a sign fixed to a tree telling her to “DIG HERE” so she follows the instructions and discovers a ring that turns out to be the ring that Zach was planning to give to Tullulah on the night they went missing. Can she find out what happens to Tullulah and Zach and solve the case.