Jewell not only creates a mystery to be solved but also explores human relationships.This thrilling narrative has it all. She is convinced that all is not as it seems and fears the worst. She knows that despite the difficulties of being a young mother, Tallulah would never abandon her baby. Eventually, Kim files a missing person’s report with the Police who suspect the teenagers have simply cast off their responsibility for the baby and run away, but Kim knows her daughter. Yes, Lula and Zach were there, but it seems, they left. She contacts her friends and it appears Tallulah was last seen going to a pool party at a mysterious nearby mansion, appropriately called Dark Place, home of fellow student, Scarlett Jacques, but there the trail ends. Kim, Lula’s mother, does what she can to find out what has happened. It is their first night out together in months, a date night, and they leave her mother to babysit their baby son, but neither Tallulah nor Zach return. Nineteen-year-old Tallulah goes out for an evening with her live-in boyfriend. The Night She Disappeared begins slowly, but the chilling atmosphere is nurtured early on. Just vanished? How long would you go on hoping, believing? No sightings, no bank cards used, no body found.
What would you do if your daughter went out for an evening and simply didn’t come back? Left no trace. I didn’t need to worry in this case, though - the spiders were not the most fearsome aspect of this novel.
I empathized with Sean Connery in Dr No when the tarantula crawled over him – his fear was real, apparently – and I don’t like the trials in I’m a Celebrity – you’ll know the ones. What was I doing reading a novel like this? I don’t like frightening psychological dramas and I definitely don’t like creepie crawlies. The prologue, a vivid definition of arachnophobia, did give me cause to hesitate.
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