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

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The mendacious mercurial nature of some characters in this book will rattle you to the extent of even making you nihilistic. Laurel's voice is so realististic, raw, and sympathetic, she nearly had me believing she was a real person and that this was a true story. To say I'm waiting with bated breath for Lisa's next novel would be an understatement, and I hope you enjoy this story as much as I did. 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.

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. Much like the other book I just read from this genre ( What Happened to Michael), I can safely recommend this to "missing person with a twist" thriller fans. Populated with fantastic characters, this was a fascinating and moving story about obsession, loss, and family.When Then She Was Gone showed up on NetGalley last month, I immediately requested it and added it to my reading queue for April. Her disappearance takes a huge toll on the family, a family that breaks apart as many families in this type of situations often do. The book alternates between "Then" and "Now" to tell the story of what happened to Ellie, who kidnapped and hurt her, what the new love interest for Ellie's mother, Laurel, has to say transpired over all the years, and where things really fell apart. I read a Lisa Jewell novel last year and connected immediately with her writing style, tone, and voice.

Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter.

She drifted away from her other two children, Hanna and Jake, and eventually she and her husband, Paul, divorced. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs. The more and more Laurel spends time with Floyd and Polly, she comes to realize that what happened to Ellie was not at all what it seemed.