The Night She Disappeared

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.