The Night She Disappeared

By Lisa Jewell,

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes “her best thriller yet” (Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author) about a young couple’s disappearance on a gorgeous summer night, and the mother who will never give up trying to find them.

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This was the first Lisa Jewell mystery I read. When I finished it, I went on to read several more. Kim is thirty-nine and raising her grandson Noah because her daughter Tallulah has disappeared. She and her boyfriend Zach, who lived with Kim, have gone out for the evening and never returned home. The police discover they ended up spending the evening with a group of young people from a nearby school. As the story progresses, we learn more about these young people and about Tallulah's secret relationship with their leader, a volatile woman. And finally we find out what…

Though the daughter’s story in this novel is full of twists, I connected with her mother who must hold her life together while being a full-time grandma to her missing daughter’s baby, while experiencing a daily living nightmare. While desperately trying to find out why her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend vanished after a date night, she must also step in to care for her daughter’s baby. This story changes POV from the mother and from the daughter’s, building the suspense as the daughter’s POV flashbacks draw closer to the “night she disappeared.” What I really love about Lisa Jewell’s…

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