The Night She Disappeared starts off as a slow burn with a chilling atmosphere and multiple points of view, which soon all converge into a gripping and unputdownable story.Young parents Tallulah and Zach are thrilled to have the chance to enjoy a rare night out on the town. But when the couple still hasn't returned by the next morning, Tallulah's mother Kim is rightfully worried. But with no clues, the cases goes cold, and a year goes by. When Sophie, a mystery writer, moves in nearby, and clues...

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell Multiple points of view and three timelines, that are presented to us throughout the story, make for an interesting and confusing "who done what" mystery. The story revolves around the disappearance of nineteen year old Tallulah and her nineteen year old live-in boyfriend. They have a one year old baby and there is no way "Lula" would abandon her baby so her mother knows that Tallulah is missing due to foul play. As the story progresses from one timeline

Not My Favorite Lisa JewellThe Night She Disappeared is a thriller about a young 19-year-old mother and her boyfriend who go missing on date night. Zach and Tallulah are young parents living with Tallulah’s mother Kim, their baby Noah, and Ryan, Tallulah’s brother. On the night that Zach is planning to propose, Kim agrees to babysit. But when Tallulah and Zach never return from dinner, Kim’s life is decimated. She spends the next year and a half looking for answers about her missing daughter and...

***HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY***This is a slow burn of a mystery that left me wanting more. Ms. Jewell’s writing is always good, the story flows well from dual timelines. The premise of the story was a good one. The idea of a mother and her boyfriend who disappear, leaving behind her baby in the care of her mother, never to return from a night out. I didn’t find it riveting as others have, I did turn the pages because I wanted to “get to the good stuff”, I was waiting for something amazing to happen

Lisa Jewell has a special knack for taking seemingly unrelated plot threads and weaving them together into a seamless, cohesive story by the end. Few authors are masters of this technique, and that's why the ones who do it well have a loyal following of readers who will dip their toes into whatever books they choose to write. Typically, I've found Jewell's books to use the multiple POV approach, and while this one does employ that strategy, the focus is more on the timeline between past and pres...

At this point I have read six Lisa Jewell books, but this one is my favourite. I found it absolutely riveting and impossible to put down.The Night She Disappeared is an excellent thriller, steeped in mystery and drama, with a strong emotionally-compelling mother/daughter love story at its core. Jewell's best books are the ones that make you fall hard for the characters so you can't do anything else until you've found out what happened to them.This one begins with the plot of countless other myst...

Solid read, but not as good as the author's previous books. I'm on a streak of books really dragging in the middle. I tried an experiment with this one once it started to drag for me. I skipped ahead 10 chapters and read a few pages to see if I could figure out what was going on. Honestly, I couldn't even tell that I'd skipped the chapters, there were a few incidents that were referred back to, but overall I didn't miss anything major in those 10 chapters. (I did go back again) To me that is a s...

2017: Tallulah is a devoted 19 year old mum to baby Noah. So, when she and the baby’s father, Zach, do not return home after a date night, her mother, Kim, knows in her gut, that her daughter did not leave her baby behind, voluntarily. 2018: Shaun is the new head teacher in Upfield Common and his partner, Sophie, author of the cozy mystery series, “The Hither Green Detective Agency” has agreed to move with him to the Counryside. Shortly after settling in at the cottage that comes with the job, S...

I’m singing happy book birthday song to this heart throbbing thriller and I’m so happy you cannot hear my voice ( I don’t like to be sued for causing to ear bleeding!) 😃My brain cells are out of order to put the story in a chronological order and absorb the entire mystery!Lisa Jewels already guaranteed her place at my top 5 favorite thriller authors list a long time ago. This smart, mysterious missing people story is like an enigma: she divided it into puzzle pieces and told the story between th...

Closer to a 4.5Lisa Jewell does it again. I cried at the end of this book, which is incredibly rare for me with thrillers. I knocked off a star because the middle was so slow, and I did predict one of the twists, but I also blasted through this thick book in two sittings because I was so hooked and couldn’t stop reading. I love the mother / daughter relationship at the center of this book, it reminded me a lot of my favorite book of hers, Then She Was Gone.Reading vlog with more thoughts: https:...

A slow burn domestic mystery from a favorite author!19 year old Tallulah, her mom Kim, and two timelines from 2017 and 2019.Tallulah disappears while her mom babysits her young child. This is where the mystery begins.... I was wrapped up in Kim's story and she felt authentic and was the star of the novel for me. Although the mystery was intriguing, I never felt it had enough tension or thrilling suspense, but was still curious enough to find out all the why's of the disappearance.I struggled wit...

Just BRILLIANT!! Lisa Jewell is one of my most favourite authors. I think this is my favourite book of hers since she has moved into the mystery/suspense/thriller genre. Her last few books were less thrilling for me. This one kept me on the edge of my seat and had all the right components for a good ole "whodunnit" mystery.Two teenaged parents go out for a much needed break from their young child one evening but vanish and never return home. The story is told in multiple points of view and goes

this didnt blow me away, but i honestly cant think of anything that i majorly disliked about it. for being on the longer side (and a bit slow in the middle), this was actually a very easy story to read and get into. and i think its because theres a lot of dialogue, which i prefer. i also like the narrative format of the chapters alternating between the time before tallulah goes missing, when she does go missing, and two years after. the characters are okay. no one particularly stood out to me, b...

Young mum, 19 year old Tallulah Murray, her baby Noah, and boyfriend, Zach, (father of Noah), are living with Tallulah’s mum Kim. Tallulah and Zach dote on baby Noah equally, and after a very tough year, they’re treating themselves to a date night at the local pub. Kim is babysitting, it’s a beautiful summer’s evening, it should be a special night, but when they don’t return home at the end of the night, it leads to a mystery that detectives find impossible to solve.The last sighting of Tallulah...

5 stars! Another winner from a favourite author of mine!I loved everything about this book! The school campus setting, dual narrative timelines, an old crumbling mansion, secret tunnels, complex and unique characters, long buried secrets and a multitude of clues that kept my curiosity piqued from start to finish.I’m a huge fan of Lisa Jewell and I’m happy to report she created another brilliant, thrilling, mysterious, suspenseful and unputdownable story. I always find myself hanging on every wor...

4+Young mother 19 year old Tallulah and partner Zach leave their baby Noah with Tallulah’s mum Kim while they have a rare night out. They don’t return home that night and are last seen at ‘Dark Place’ a large property owned by Scarlett Jacques parents. Just over a year on, Shaun takes up the headship at Maypole House, a private boarding school whose grounds border onto Dark Place. Shaun moves into a cottage in the grounds with his partner Sophie, a writer of cozy mysteries. The story is told in

How to make a Lisa Jewell novel, in cocktail form:*1 oz of Mystery*2 oz of Character Development*Garnish with red herringsAnd in the case of The Night She Disappeared... A heavy, heavy pour of amateur detective sleuthing that made this drink a bit sour. 2017: Tallulah (Lula) is missing after a night out away from #MomLife with young baby Noah. She has left her son with mom Kim and attempts to live the life of a 'normal' young adult, with boyfriend and baby's father Zach and a cadre of friends,...

Well written.Good plot.Unpredictable.However, the twist needs better explanations towards the end.The characters are quite the people not thinking hard enough about what would possibly go wrong the next moment. I could understand it most probably because we are dealing with hit headed, problematic teenagers here.However, I feel like the security system and the police are quite dull and almost non-existent for a thriller/missing people mystery such as this.Apart from this, it's a good read. Mostl...