A very interesting story line that kept you guessing about the outcome right up to the end. Cleverly written, with very believable characters that were made easy to identify with and kept you turning pages to reach the finale. An enjoyable read.

A great story with so many twists and turns. Thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this book and could not put it down.

I love a Lisa Jewell thriller, and this much-anticipated latest novel is hotly-tipped to be a bestseller. In my opinion, it's her best one yet!

There were a couple of things that hooked me in the from the start: the setting of a private boarding school; the characters of Tallulah, who is a teenage mum, and the new headmaster's girlfriend Sophie, who is an author of detective novels. Add a mysterious disappearance into the mix and you've got 'The Night She Disappeared', a book that I really didn't want to put down.

Lisa Jewell always has good characters and plots, but this one seemed so much sharper and 'tighter' somehow, that it really was a page-turner. There were no lose ends, and she keeps the twists coming right until the end. A big thumbs up from me!

I noticed a number of typos in the Kindle edition I read and was left a little frustrated by what I felt were some plot holes by the end (the Jacques didn't have a single cleaner or housekeeper mentioned at Dark Place...I'm sure they WOULD have had a team of staff and I'm sure this would have caused significant problems after the August night and what transpired thereafter!). I was also not keen on the back and forth between two different past timelines for the first parts of the story and think these could have been merged to just have one linear past and one linear present timeline instead. Some of the dialogue, characterisation and plot points I found too farfetched or too convenient. With those points in mind I really feel this novel could benefit greatly from another round of editing.

Wow wow wow I loved this book and this author yet again has smashed it out of the park. What a great book and one hell of a thriller. When Sophie moves in with her headteacher boyfriend to the cottage in the grounds of his new school the novelist becomes entangled in the mystery of two children who went out one night and never came home leaving behind a young child. As things take a sinister turn and stories and lies start to come out the truth may well be stranger than fiction. Loved it!!

I received a free copy from Netgalley to review, here is the blurb:

"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 "

This is the 3rd book by Lisa Jewell that I have read, having previously enjoyed reading the others I was looking forward to getting stuck into this one and it did not disappoint. I find the author's style really easy to read and think she develops characters really well that enable me to visualise them with ease. The format of the book is that it is written from various character's point's of view including Sophie, the headteachers girlfriend, Tallulah, the girl who disappeared and Kim, Tallulah's mum. The story dips between the present and the past leading up to where Tallulah disappears. The present day focus's on Sophie and her intrigue with the case and trying to work out what happened.

Really enjoyed this read and if you have read the author's previous books I am certain that you will enjoy this one. For anyone who hasn't read Lisa Jewell's books before but you enjoy a good mystery I would recommend this one for you too.

A nineteen-year-old couple go missing after a night out and, over a year later, they still haven’t been found leaving an unanswered mystery. This novel cleverly moves the reader through different timelines so that we slowly begin to piece together what may have happened, which I found very engrossing. A smart, compelling, contemporary novel which I could not put down.

I couldn’t put this book down! A suspenseful and at times heartbreaking story. The plot is engrossingly complex and the characters are beautifully developed. I especially enjoyed how the setting was so well constructed, it helped the plot and characters come to life on the page. I’d say it’s more of a satisfying mystery than a thriller and it’s all the better for that, it has a quiet darkness which felt very credible. The coercive control element was dealt with very deftly, so the true insidious nature of this type of abuse wasn’t sensationalised or dismissed. Highly recommended. Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

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Book 19 of 2021

Book number 19 of the year was in fact @lisajewelluk's 19th novel and being a self-proclaimed super fan I was absolutely jumping for joy that I had been chosen to receive an ARC of "The Night She Disappeared" due for publication on 22nd July. Thank you so much to @NetGalley, @lisajewelluk and the publisher Random House, Cornerstone. This book had me gripped from start to finish and her cast of characters were so varied that I had totally invested my emotions into solving the mystery of whatever happened to Tallulah Murray, twenty year old mother of Noah, when she effectively disappeared without a trace after a night out with on-off boyfriend Zach. We have alternate timelines switching from Tallulah's life at college, mixing with a group of eclectic, entitled, bourgeoisie art students to Tallulah's mother, Kim, painfully going through the motions of raising Tallulah's son whilst grieving for the loss of her daughter. We have Sophie, the headmaster's girlfriend and more importantly, a novelist focusing on the genre of crime and mystery who, rather than getting straight to work on her next book, finds herself immersed in the mystery of what happened to Tallulah and with the intertextual links between the real life mystery and her own books, it becomes apparent that Sophie might hold the key to solving it. Each character was perfectly constructed - from the angst-ridden Scarlett Jacques, the coercive Zach, the doting Kim and the thoroughly oblivious Megs. For those who have read the book already, the image is from one of my favourite parts - the terribly uncomfortable seafood platter with all and sundry helping themselves to truffle fries! Another fabulous read and I very much look forward to recommending this to all of my bookish friends who need a totally absorbing read to herald the start of the summer holidays.

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A great read! A bit slow to start but the excitement ramps up near the end and keeps you guessing.
I’d definitely recommend this book to friends!

Another gripping read from Lisa Jewell, flitting between the present day where Kim, a grandmother is looking after her daughter's young son following the disappearance of Tallulah, her daughter, and Zak, her partner, one night, and the events leading up to the disappearance.

Tallulah and Zak went missing following a rare night out in their local pub, which was followed by an impromptu house party at a wealthy friend's house. The police can't find any sign of either of them and the case goes cold, but Kim is understandably still distraught.

Random clues start being left around after a year of searching, will they help lead to the answers?

I really enjoyed reading it, enough twists and turns to keep the reader interested

An engrossing read. A young mother, Tallulah leaves her baby with her own mother Kim and goes out for the evening with the baby's father, Noah. They meet other teenagers at the pub and later go back to one of the girl's house which is a big house with a pool but in the middle of nowhere. That is the last anyone sees of them. They were intending to ring for a taxi home. Over a year later Sophy, who writes detective stories, moves into a cottage which is in the grounds of a school where her partner has just got a teaching job. She finds a sign at the cottage which says "dig here" The police renew their interest in the case. Will they discover what happened? It is a twisty tale that goes back in time to piece out what actually happened and why. I was kept interested and surprised by the ending

4 stars. Another brilliant mystery from Lisa Jewell.
Intriguing and full of suspense with some great twists and reveals.

Another amazing story delivered by Lisa Jewell.

This is a greatly written mystery that goes at a steady but firm pace, never missing its rhythm, always keeping the reader at the edge of our seats.

Each character feels real, is built entirely and represents an important piece in the story. As it unfolds, you may think you know the solution to the core mystery but I sure doubt you'll get the whole thing. I was heartbroken by Tallulah's ordeal, by Kim's desperation, uplift by Sophie's kindness.

I'd like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed this, as with all Lisa Jewel’s novels, they are just very good.

Theres a lot about this book I loved; its fast paced, there are a lot of revolutionary moments where you connect the dots and go ‘ahh’.
This is definitely a mystery for me more than it is a thriller.. in some ways its very fast paced and in others it feels a bit slow. That being said Jewel leaves us with some absolute cliff hangers at the end of every chapter which keeps you turning the pages and certainly has a ‘just one more chapter’ feel. She’s also has a complete knack for tying up lose ends and answering all your questions - particularly before you’ve even realised that you had those questions, so its very satisfying to finish and feel like everything has been dealt with.
The premise is a good one; I had no idea what direction this book was going to take and with revelations throughout and hints at whats going on, they only succeeded in making me less able to guess an overall outcome - another thing Jewel does so well.

I have a few slight issues which means its not a 5 star from me this time. I found some of the plot very unbelievable. Its hard to mention too much about this without spoilers (and im not a spoiler) but theres certain parts that I don’t feel 100% convinced by.

That shouldn’t be something to be put off by though. Jewel continues to bring us some epic page turners and a year stuck at home for the best part hasn’t taken away her art of doing that. It won’t be necessary to convince any existing Jewel fans to read this and I don’t know many people who don’t enjoy her work so I’m sure the majority of you interested in this review will be picking it up and reading when you can get hold of a copy.

I have absolutely devoured and loved every single book by Lisa Jewell. She is one of my absolute favourite authors ever. Her previous books, 'Then She Was Gone' and 'The Family Upstairs' are two of the best books I've ever read. So you can imagine my excitement when receiving this advanced readers copy of her latest book. I suppose had high expectations of her latest book. And I was not disappointed. The Night She Disappeared is amazing. A dark, twisty mystery with brilliant characters. I loved it. Lisa Jewell fans are going to go.wild for this one xxx

Lisa Jewell has written some cracking books so I was looking forward to her most recent. The fact that the three alternating timelines of the book never got muddled or confusing is a real testament to Lisa as an author and I enjoyed that as we discovered more about 'the night of' so were the characters. The was one of the first books for a while where most of the characters (Sophie, Tallulah and Kim) were actually really likeable which is certainly no bad thing. There is also the character of Scarlett who is a really interesting and complex addition that I could never make my mind up on. I understood the requirement of Sophie to the plot but I felt there needed to me more time on developing her as a character, especially her relationship with Shaun. I just didn't really get them as a couple and I think more time spent on their dynamics would have been beneficial. As other reviewers have said, there are a few things that crop up that seem a bit unrealistic/lazy on the authors part. For example, author Sophie forgetting a pretty big part of one of her own books that just so happens to end up cropping up as part of the main storyline. I also raised my eyebrows a few time at how crap the police were and how often they needed to be helped by the likes of Kim and Sophie. Essentially, there's quite a bit of artistic license taken with this book.

Ultimately, this is an intriguing story with plenty of red herrings and some neat twists. While it is a slow burn and not the darkest of plots that many thriller fans will be used to, it's well worth a read for the journey.

I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of this book and as usual, Lisa Jewell does not disappoint. The story revolves around young Mum Tallulah and her coercive and quite controlling boyfriend Zach. Talullah gets involved with the cool quirky girl at college, Scarlett and this changes her world.
The story jumps forward a year to Sophie, a young detective novelist who has just moved to the area. She tries to piece together what happened a year ago when Talullah disappears.
It’s very cleverly written and keeps your interest throughout. The characters are three dimensional and you can see that they are all flawed in some way, true to real life.
I could t put this down and was desperate to know what happened on that fateful day and the story did not disappoint. Clues are left throughout the story and it was a brilliant read.

I would highly recommend this book as Lisa is my favourite author and I have been reading her books for decades now. Always engrossing, highly readable and pure pleasure.

The plot kept me engaged as it went along but there were no big twists or huge surprises. At the end I there was a plot hole which was a bit unsatisfactory! Having said all that, it's a good quick read, summer thriller.

Thank you Netgalley for the advanced reading copy in exchange for an honest review.
The night she disappeared is based on many different characters and takes you between the year before and present day, surrounding the disappearance of new parents Tallulah and Zach, which unfolds the events leading up to their disappearance and there after.
Lisa Jewell has produced another fantastically written novel, however, I found The night she disappeared to not peak my interest and have me swept in from the first page unlike her previous novels.
I found it very slow and honestly did not peak my interest until around 70% when more details of the evening of disappearance came to light. I found the characters to be very uninteresting and some of the storyline predictable, however, I was on hooks on what actually happened to Tallulah and Zach and did not predict the outcome so on this basis I give it 4 stars and recommend for a summer read.