![]() With the ease of a Vegas blackjack dealer, she shuffles between the days after Sophie’s discovery, the months leading up to Tallulah’s disappearance, and Kim’s frantic search in the days that followed. Once again, Lisa Jewell proves herself to be a master of page-turning suspense. Together, the two women set out to learn what really happened to Tallulah. What she finds buried there brings her into contact with Kim, Tallulah’s mother, who continues to look for her daughter long after everyone else has stopped. Soon after, Sophie stumbles upon a handwritten note on the edge of the storied estate’s vast woods that bears an ominous message-DIG HERE. Before she can settle in, Sophie hears about Tallulah and Zach, a young couple who vanished a year earlier after attending a get-together at Dark Place. The writer is Sophie, who moves to a quaint English village when her boyfriend becomes head teacher at a private school. Creepy woods? Check! Academic setting? Check! An ancient, sprawling estate called Dark Place? Check! Secrets, illicit affairs, and suspicious characters inhabiting multiple timelines? Check, check, and heck yes! Even better, at its center are three flawed, determined, vivid women-a missing girl, her devoted mother, and a mystery writer who finds a clue that turns a cold case into a bonfire. ![]() ![]() If I made a list of all the things I want in a thriller, The Night She Disappeared would check off every single item. ![]()
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