Laura Lippman

After I'm Gone (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 five women he left behindhis wife, his daughters, and his mistress

Dead is dead. Missing is gone.

When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk at a Valentine's Day dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrativeif not all legalbusinesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July in 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, facing prison, vanishes.

Though Bambi has no idea where her husbandor his moneymight be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day after Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old loveruntil her remains are discovered in a secluded park.

Now, twenty-six years later, 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 of bitterness, jealousy, resentment, greed, and longing stretching over five decades. And at its center is the man who, though long gone, has never been forgotten by the five women who loved him: the enigmatic Felix Brewer.

Felix Brewer left five women behind. Now there are four. Does at least one of them know the truth?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062083401
• Artikelnr.: 40216681

Autorenporträt

Since Laura Lippman's debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the essential crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her special, even extraordinary, and Gillian Flynn wrote, She is simply a brilliant novelist. Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.

Rezensionen

"Despite the murder at its center, this is less a suspenseful whodunit than a masterly novel of character, with secrets skillfully and gradually revealed. Revel in the pace and pleasures of this book [...] that should add to Lippman's literary luster." - Library Journal (starred review)

"Lippman is a bet you just can't lose." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"I never miss Laura Lippman's novels." - Anna Quindlen, New York Times bestselling author

"She's one of the best novelists around, period." - Washington Post

"smart and mesmerizing [...] an involving and elegant novel of the psychological ravages of crime" - Booklist

"Equal parts love story, tragedy and murder mystery, Lippman's latest thriller delivers twist and emotional depth with its tale of a philandering scheemer whose long-time mistress turns up dead years after he skipped town." - Entertainment Weekly

"Lippman is as skillful at plot as she is at characters and setting, and the twists in the novel's final pages are both surprising and satisfying. [...] Like everything else Lippman has written, "After I'm Gone" transcends the limits of genre." - Washington Post

"In this edge-of-your seat tale, a man's disappearance has unexpected consequences for the women he's left behind." - O, the Oprah Magazine

"pure delight." - People

"enthralling" - Houston Chronicle

"Lippman is one of the deftest hands at whodunit around, and the great characters make for an engaging read." - Dallas Morning News