Is The Night She Disappeared part of a series?

No. It's a standalone thriller — you don't need to have read any other Lisa Jewell novel to follow it.

Where is The Night She Disappeared set?

In and around the fictional village of Upfield Common in the Surrey Hills, England, centred on a private school and the woods behind it, known locally as Dark Place.

The Night She Disappeared

Domestic Thriller Psychological Thriller

Pages: 480
Published: 2021
Language: English

In the summer of 2017, nineteen-year-old Tallulah leaves her baby son with her mother Kim and goes out for the evening. She is last seen heading to a party at Dark Place, a grand house deep in the woods behind her boyfriend's exclusive school — and then she is gone. Her boyfriend Zach vanishes the same night. Kim is left with a grandchild, a single cryptic text, and no answers.

A year later, novelist Sophie Beck moves into a cottage on the grounds of the same school, where her partner has taken a job. Walking in the woods, she finds a hand-lettered sign nailed to a tree: DIG HERE. What she uncovers pulls her into Tallulah's unsolved disappearance and toward the wealthy, magnetic, dangerous people who were with her that last night.

Told across two timelines, The Night She Disappeared is a propulsive Lisa Jewell thriller about obsession, class, manipulation, and the secrets a small community keeps buried.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Dark Tense Mysterious Atmospheric Gritty

Dual Timeline Love Triangle

Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell (born 19 July 1968) is a British author of psychological thrillers and contemporary fiction. Born in the West End of London and raised in Totteridge, she worked in fashion, including at Thomas Pink, before completing a creative writing course. Her 1999 debut novel, Ralph's Party, became the UK's best-selling debut of the year. She has since published more than twenty novels, including Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs, Invisible Girl and None of This Is True, and is a number one...

Tallulah (The Night She Disappeared)Protagonist

A nineteen-year-old mother who disappears after a night out.

Sophie BeckProtagonist

A cozy-crime novelist who reopens the case a year later.

Scarlett JacquesAntagonist

A wealthy, manipulative classmate at the centre of that night.

Zach (The Night She Disappeared)Supporting

Tallulah's boyfriend and the father of her baby son, Noah; a controlling presence in her life who disappears the same night she does.

Kim (The Night She Disappeared)Supporting

Tallulah's mother, left caring for her grandson and searching for the truth after Tallulah and Zach vanish.

All characters in The Night She Disappeared

Frequently asked questions

Is The Night She Disappeared part of a series?
No. It's a standalone thriller — you don't need to have read any other Lisa Jewell novel to follow it.
Where is The Night She Disappeared set?
In and around the fictional village of Upfield Common in the Surrey Hills, England, centred on a private school and the woods behind it, known locally as Dark Place.