March 2022
ISBN: 9781529156270 ISBN-10: 1529156270
About:
It’s nearly midnight and you’re home alone with only your baby grandson for company. Your daughter and her boyfriend have gone out to a party; the first time they’ve been out since their son was born. And now you are waiting for them to come home.
But they don’t.
The next morning, frantic, you ring your daughter’s friends, and you’re told that she was last seen heading to a party in an isolated village known as Dark Place …
My Review:
I love Lisa Jewells books . They are always gripping.
I loved how Lisa jumped seamlessly from year to year between chapters. I found it easy to keep track of characters and events.
The story.
I constantly wanted Tallulah to speak up, to do what she often thought. To be strong for herself, but at 19, she was looking for stability and instead ended up being dragged along with her boyfriend’s ideas and her mums joy that she looked settled.
I found it hard to believe Kim, Tallulahs mum didn’t pick up the signs Tallulah was unhappy.
The side story with Scarlett and Guy Croft was an interesting angle to add, which left rather a loose end in the final chapter.
I couldn’t visualise the Jacques house as clearly as I’d have liked, I had problems trying to visualise the perspex pedestals in the garden, the odd features of the place, so overall I didn’t have a great picture of their mansion.
I found Shaun quite tiresome,, distracted, not really concerned about his partner Sophie, he didn’t play a big part in the story he was just there to bring in why Sophie and him had moved from London to the countryside. It was mainly Sophie who found herself lost and out of her comfort zone. A detective novelist Sophie found herself in the midst of the real-life disappeance of two young people a year earlier and teaming up with Tallulahs mum Kim they set out to find out what happened to her daughter.
I’d worked out what had happened to Zach and Tallulah three quarters of the way through the book, but not the why, so I continued to be transported along with Sophie and Kim’s investigations whilst Lisa tied up the loose ends effectively….well almost.
