The Night We Lost Him: A Bayou Reckoning, (Hardcover)

<p><strong>Some men keep secrets. Some men become them.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>A propulsive Southern thriller about a Louisiana widow who follows the trail her husband left behind - and discovers the man she married was hiding a decade of secrets that someone is willing to kill to keep buried.</strong></p><p></p><p>Eli Boudreaux was many things to many people. To the parish, he was the quiet attorney who took the court-appointed cases nobody else wanted, the man who built his cypress house with his own hands on a slow stretch of bayou outside Pointe-aux-Chênes. To his clients, he was a careful counselor who never raised his voice and never broke a promise. To his old friends from Morgan City, he was the boy who got out and never looked back. To Maren, he was a husband who loved her with a steadiness she had stopped believing she would ever find - notably, in the cypress house perched at the edge of the bayou where his body was pulled from the water on a humid October morning.</p><p></p><p>The authorities rule the death accidental. The coroner calls it a drowning. But Maren and the federal agent who slips her a card at the funeral and tells her never to call from her own phone have other ideas.</p><p></p><p>As Maren retraces the last six months of her husband's life, she forms an uneasy alliance with the woman investigating him and begins putting together the pieces of a hidden past that runs from the shrimp boats of Lafourche Parish to a chain of cash-heavy motels in Biloxi - and uncovers a name nobody in three parishes will say out loud, a name that changes everything she thought she knew about the man she married.</p><p></p><p>The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: Eli was not running from his past. He was trying to dismantle it. And the deal he made the week before he died put a target on his back.</p><p></p><p>Now that target belongs to her.</p><p></p><p>With its atmospheric Louisiana setting, taut pacing, and a heartbreaking final twist on a moonlit dock at Lake Boudreaux that you will never see coming, <em>The Night We Lost Him: A Bayou Reckoning</em> is a riveting debut Southern thriller about marriage, complicity, and the price of finally telling the truth - perfect for readers of Laura Dave, Lisa Jewell, and Delia Owens.</p>

• The Night We Lost Him: A Bayou Reckoning, (Hardcover)
• Author: Erika Berlanga
• ISBN: 9798240906459
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-05-02
• Page Count: 200