There it is, the very early outposts of crying, a kind of dry, ominous chirruping. She clicks the volume down on the TV using the remote and listens again. But tonight she’s in joggers and a T-shirt, her dark hair tied up in a bun, contacts out, glasses on, and a glass of lukewarm wine on the coffee table that she poured herself earlier and hasn’t had a chance to drink. Eleven o’clock: she’d be at the bar getting in the last round for the road.

It’s Friday, a sultry midsummer night, and normally she’d be out with friends at this time. It’s taken her all night to get him to sleep. Kim sits still in her chair and holds her breath. I enjoyed both the print book and the audio. It was ingenious! Highly recommended for mystery lovers. Her riveting twists sucked me in and never let go. Well, The Night She Disappeared was a great introduction to her work. Crazy, right? She is the New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels that have sold over ten million copies, and somehow, I’ve missed her. She never returns.Ī year later, Sophie Beck, a mystery writer, is walking in the woods near the boarding school where her boyfriend works as a head-teacher when she sees a hand-lettered cardboard affixed to a tree that reads: “DIG HERE.” What she finds there has Sophie and Kim joining forces to search for the truth. The next morning, Kim phones Tallulah’s friends, who tell her she was last seen heading to a house party in Surrey, England called Dark Place. Kim watches her daughter leave and, as late evening turns into night, which turns into early morning, she waits for her return. Tallulah and her boyfriend, Zach, both nineteen, are going out on a date, leaving their infant son with her mother, Kim. “Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart” (Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author) that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer’s favorite place for long walks and it’s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, “DIG HERE.”Ĭould this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple? And what exactly is buried in this haunted ground?

One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. 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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