Then She Was Gone: From the number one bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

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If she could unwind the timeline, untwist it and roll it back the other way like a ball of wool, she'd see the knots in the yarn, the warning signs. Lisa Jewell is the internationally bestselling author of sixteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Then She Was Gone, as well as I Found You, The Girls in the Garden, and The House We Grew Up In. At the end of the book, the author mentions that her agent had an audacious and shocking idea for Then She Was Gone which the author championed. And in this very 'ordinaryness' Jewell creates compelling characters that we come to love and empathise with, and addictive reads. I always have a hard time finding thrillers that are shocking but don’t rely on shock value, if that makes sense.

Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Meanwhile the family has fallen apart - a divorce for Paul and Laurel and sort of an estrangement between their children. It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.

She never in a million years could have predicted the shocking revelations her inquiries would uncover or the personal epiphanies that would change Laurel's life forevermore. After 10 years have passed, the family finally gets some answers--what they don’t realize is how close they were to knowing the truth all along. Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.

A golden girl, favorite daughter with a brilliant future ahead of her: Ellie tells her mother save the last piece of lasagna for her and she is going to the library but it will not take long for her to come back. Someone once mooted the theory that Hanna felt too guilty to have a boyfriend because her little sister would never have one. You definitely want to add this to your reading schedule ASAP, especially if you're looking for a read that is so gripping you'll fly right through it. heres what i think for this one: floyd was involved in ellies disappearance (i dont think it will be a kidnapping, but maybe manipulated to run away?I kept hoping something exciting would happen to prove me wrong, but it really is as obvious as it seems. After finishing this book I really had to wait a few days to sort of “SETTLE ME DOWN” as this mystery touched some very delicate feelings in me, more so than her first two books. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.

Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc. Though I knew where it was going early on, I still truly enjoyed it and simply could not put it down!There are no clues or hints to explain her disappearance and the police keep coming up empty handed. Ellie, a conscientious teenager, and the apple of her mother's eye, left to visit the library and was never seen or heard from again. latest thriller moves at a brisk pace even as she plays with narrative structure: The book is split into three sections, including a first one which alternates chapters between the time of Ellie’s disappearance and the present and a second section that begins as Laurel and Floyd meet. One who transports you into the story that you forget to try to solve it because you're just so stunned by its beauty. We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).

Ten years after her teenage daughter went missing, a mother begins a new relationship only to discover she can't truly move on until she answers lingering questions about the past. You have to suspend a tiny bit of your disbelief or questions as to how the kidnapping was truly pulled off.I'm afraid I have to disagree with one character telling that our decision-making capabilities aren't fully developed until we are twenty-five years old.