What happened on The Night She Disappeared?

On a beautiful summer night, Tallulah Knox and her boyfriend Zach disappear after a party at Dark Place, a country estate in the woods, while her mother Kim is babysitting Tallulah’s son Noah. A year later, a mysterious note reading Dig Here appears near a cottage at the edge of the woods, and is found by a newly-arrived writer of detective novels who has just moved in. She begins to investigate.

Perhaps now there will be answers to the mysteries of Dark Place and what happened to Tallulah and Zach. What really happened on that night? Find out more about this book of suspense, mysteries, dark secrets, toxic relationships and family trauma.

Watch the author Lisa Jewell in conversation with Suzanne Leal, online with BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival on Wednesday 21 July at 6pm. Tickets are just $10.

Buy your copy of The Night She Disappeared (Out 20 July) from Booktopia here.

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Bestselling UK writer Lisa Jewell’s first book, Ralph's Party, was the top-selling debut novel of 1999. Since then she has written another eighteen novels, most recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls, Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs. Lisa is a New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages, and lives in London.

Interviewer Suzanne Leal is the author of the novels The Deceptions, The Teacher’s Secret and Border Street. A regular presenter at literary events and festivals, she is the chair of the fiction and poetry panel for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and former senior judge for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. A lawyer experienced in child protection, criminal law and refugee law, Suzanne is a senior member of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal and former member of the Refugee Review Tribunal. She is the host of Thursday Book Club, a weekly online discussion about books and reading.