Dr. Dana Rowe wakes up on a Tuesday with no memory of Monday at all. No notes. No calls returned. Her car twelve miles from where she remembers parking it. For two years she's kept her mind's small failures a careful secret — logged, managed, hidden well enough to keep treating Diane Falk, the patient whose freedom depends on a jury believing Dana's account of eleven impossible sessions.
She has six weeks to get to the hearing. She may not have that long left in her own head.
The deeper Dana digs, the worse it gets. A childhood record sealed under a name that doesn't officially exist. A mother she buried twenty years ago, alive and still hiding. A stranger's kid showing the same symptoms Diane has spent eleven years learning to survive — and no idea what's happening to him. Someone was shaped for this. Dana is starting to understand it might have been her.
Then a witness turns up dead at the bottom of a stairwell, ruled an accident by people paid to rule it that way — and a man who never once raises his voice sits down next to Dana on a bench outside her own apartment to let her know, very politely, that the watching is over.
She has to walk into that courtroom and testify to something she can no longer promise is her own mind. And she has to do it while something patient, well-funded, and done being careful decides exactly how much more of her life it's willing to take.
Lost Time is Book Three in The Interview Series — a psychological thriller about what happens when the thing haunting you was built on purpose, by someone still watching to see what it grows into.
The twists keep coming drawing you deeper into Dana's story and what has caused her lack of memory and time she can't account for. I can always count on Ms. Winter's books to keep me on tenterhooks waiting for the next big thing to happen that's going to shock me and have me guessing from start to finish.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book. "One final question," Michaelson said, as the afternoon light through the courtroom's high windows began to shift toward the specific gold of late afternoon. "If this Court were to ask you, directly, whether you can guarantee the accuracy of your clinical account of these eleven sessions—what would your answer be?"
All of us lose a little time here and there. We're either not paying attention or we're just so deep in thought we're not aware but this is different. And the idea that someone did this on purpose for a reason!! How do you find the answers?
The idea behind this is great but every character has the same voice and certain phrases repeat so often that it actually ruins the dialogue. Specifically, the word “specific” show up 366 times in a 303 page book. It’s very interesting but I couldn’t continue to slog through it.