The Day I Lost You: A Novel [Paperback]

The internationally bestselling author ofThe Woman on the Ledgereturns with a twisty thriller about a missing child and three adults whose shared secrets and hidden history could prove deadly.

“I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen.”

All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She’s suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her.

Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy.

But Sam has gone missing.

So when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam’s description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might be coming to an end.

But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and birth certificate to prove it.

So what really happened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?

One child. Two mothers. And a past that won’t let them go.

“Mancini’s twisty and twisted tale unspools in a pinwheeling narrative . . . . catapulting to a [an] undeniably gratifying finale. . . . readers will race through this.” -Publishers Weekly

“With multiple (and mostly unreliable) narrators and a story told in reverse, this is a unique mystery. Readers may think they know what’s going on, but Mancini (The Woman on the Ledge, 2024) will introduce a twist at just the right moment, making readers question everything they’ve read so far. The decision to start the story at the end is clever, . . . .mystery fans will enjoy this twisty thriller.”–Booklist

”The Day I Lost Youis an ingenilÓY