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The Night She Disappeared

The Night She Disappeared

Author(s): Lisa Jewell

Location(s): Surrey Hills

Genre(s): Psychological Thriller

Era(s): 2017-2019

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‘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 . . .
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A cold case. An abandoned mansion.
A family hiding a terrible secret.
Prepare to be hooked. Lisa Jewell’s latest thriller is her best yet.

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Author: Tina Hartas

Dark Place – a very fancy house, with a great deal of history (some of it indeed very dark) – is where the posh people have been living and then nearby there is Maypole...

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