When Romilly says goodbye to her new baby daughter, abandoning her at the hospital hours after giving birth, no one can understand why she would leave - and where she has gone.
In those first few hours she had been the image of a doting mother and would have done anything to protect her baby.
Something has clearly gone wrong. Could it be that Romilly is suffering from postpartum psychosis, just as her mother did?
Or is something even worse at hand? A danger so grave that she would leave her longed-for daughter to escape it...
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It's hard to know what to do with the yellow helium balloon your holding when you discover your wife is missing. PROLOGUE
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(@AvonBooksUK, 17 February 2022, 320 pages, ARC from the publisher via # NetGalley)
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I've enjoyed other books by the author so was looking forward to Five Days Missing. This is the kind of twisty thriller I love where you're not sure what's going on or who to trust. The fact the chapters are narrated by different characters adds to the tension and suspense. The book uses more than one unreliable narrator in the characters of Romilly and Mark because you don't know is lying. Is Romilly suffering from postpartum depression and delusional or is Mark the true danger? I thought this was a corker.
