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

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You have to suspend a tiny bit of your disbelief or questions as to how the kidnapping was truly pulled off. I figured the "mystery" out but that did not spoil the book for me, as I kept turning the pages to see who else was going to figure the book out. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

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. 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. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. I was always several chapters ahead of the characters and it sapped a lot of tension out of the story.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. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Thank you so much to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Lisa Jewell for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.

Not because the plot was stagnant but quite the opposite, it was speeding along so fast and with an outcome that seemed too terrible that I just had to stop, just until the next day when I furiously turned the pages to find out the mystery. In the wake of Ellie's disappearance ten years ago, her mother and father have split and the family has been torn apart by losing its "golden child".After starting this novel I couldn’t quit, her writing is just so compelling, those of the words I would use to describe it! How the author balances both stories and interweaves them into an amazingly realistic and beautiful conclusion can only be described in a word as brilliant. Ten years later, her mother finds new love (divorced her ex-husband though they still remain friends) and slowly learns of connections to her missing child who was feared dead. 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.