After I'm Gone

Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind.

When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative--if not all legal--businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes.

Though Bambi has no idea where her husband--or his money--might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old lover--until her remains are eventually found.

Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, Roberto "Sandy" Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web stretching over three decades that connects five intriguing women. And at the center is the missing man Felix Brewer.

Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy will find the truth. And when he does, no one will ever be the same.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 02/11/2014
ISBN: 9780062083395
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.37w x 1.23d
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Award: Anthony Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2013 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2013
Library Journal 11/15/2013 pg. 85
Booklist 11/15/2013 pg. 22
Publishers Weekly 12/23/2013
Romantic Times 02/01/2014 pg. 58 - Excellent
Entertainment Weekly 02/14/2014 pg. 11
Shelf Awareness 02/21/2014
Library Journal 09/15/2013