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  • Published: 22 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473583634
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496

The Night She Disappeared




From the global number one bestselling author of The Family Upstairs: an unsolved mystery, family secrets, a boarding school for difficult teenagers and an unidentified body. It can only be Lisa Jewell!

'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 . . .

  • Published: 22 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473583634
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496

About the author

Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell was born in London. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the bestselling debut novel of 1999. Since then she has published another sixteen novels, most recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls and Then She Was Gone (both of which were Richard & Judy Book Club picks) as well as I Found You and Watching You. Lisa is a top ten New York Times and number one Sunday Times bestselling author who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two daughters, two cats, two guinea pigs and the best dog in the world.

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Praise for The Night She Disappeared

I love all Lisa's books, but The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.

Harlan Coben

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.

Harriet Tyce

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.

Erin Kelly

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.

Gillian McAllister

The only thing predictable about this ending is how unpredictable it is.

Eastern Daily Press

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The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell | Book Trailer

The brand new twisting page turner from Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Family Upstairs and Invisible Girl is out now! "No one tells stories like this better than Lisa Jewell... she gets right into it, doesn't mess about... and then hits us with an ending we never saw coming. I love it." says Lee Child. 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. 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 . . . Find out more: https://bit.ly/3BJO9NA