Dark Place is a mansion which features strongly and it’s so atmospheric to read about. I thought sense of place was really strong in this book. I had no idea at all what had happened to the teenagers. Lisa Jewell has done a brilliant job with the plotting, bringing each thread together perfectly and drip-feeding details to the reader. There’s the time running up to the disappearance, the time immediately afterwards and then the 2018 thread which takes place the following year. What’s quite unusual is that these timelines are really close together but each is completely distinct and I never felt confused or got them muddled up. The story is told in three different timelines. Sophie is a detective writer and when she discovers a cardboard sign in the garden saying “dig here” she’s immediately intrigued and on the case. In 2018, Sophie and her boyfriend, Shaun, move into the headteacher’s cottage at Maypole House boarding school. Her mum, Kim, is at home looking after Tallulah’s baby son, Noah, and waiting for her to return.
In 2017, Tallulah and her boyfriend, Zach, go missing after a night out. I have always loved a Lisa Jewell book so I eagerly picked up The Night She Disappeared and what a fantastic, twisty read it is. Lisa Jewell’s latest thriller is her best yet. Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home.įriends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place.Ģ018: 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.Ī cold case. Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.Īt 11 p.m.
‘Mum, there’s some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. My thanks to Najma Finlay for sending me a proof copy of the book for review purposes. I’m sharing my thoughts about The Night She Disappeared today, which was published on 22nd July by Century.
It’s always an exciting time when a new Lisa Jewell book comes out.
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