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Lisa Jewell’s Cracking Crime
The Night She Disappeared is the latest mystery from popular and internationally bestselling author LISA JEWELL. In typical Jewell fashion, it merges together buried secrets with a tightly wound mystery, centred around a missing teenage girl.
HEATHER LEWIS writes.
Even bestselling authors with over 20 years of writing under their belt get stumped when the world gets turned upside down. The Night She Disappeared, the 19th book by renowned UK writer Lisa ...
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