

Lisa Jewell's latest thriller is her best yet. At 4.30am Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come homeįriends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark PlaceĢ018: 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.Ī cold case.

Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.Īt 11pm she sends her mum a text message. "Mum, there's some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. From the global number one bestselling author of The Family Upstairs: a missing woman, an abandoned mansion, family trauma, and deep buried secrets. Her first novel, Ralphs Party, was the best- selling debut novel of 1999.
