Laura Lippman

After I'm Gone (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old 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 always legal businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's 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 devoted young mistress, Julie. When Julie herself 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 found in a secluded wooded park.

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 of bitterness, jealously, resentment and greed stretching over the three decades and three generations that connect these five very different women. And at the center of every woman's story is the man who, though long gone, has never been forgotten: the enigmatic Felix Brewer.

Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy could find the explosive truth...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571299690
• Artikelnr.: 40431039

Autorenporträt

Laura Lippman has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. Since the publication of What the Dead Know, each of her hardcovers has hit the New York Times bestseller list. A recent recipient of the first-ever Mayor's Prize, she lives in Baltimore, New Orleans and New York City with her family. To Find out more about Laura visit lauralippman.com

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