{"product_id":"after-im-gone-paperback","title":"After I'm Gone - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Lippman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Lippman, the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWhat the Dead Know\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomewhere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDead is dead. Missing is gone . . . \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Felix Brewer vanishes on July 4, 1976, to avoid serving a fifteen-year prison sentence for mail fraud, he leaves behind five devastated women: his sophisticated wife, Bambi, their three lovely daughters, and his devoted young mistress, Julie. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband or his money might be, she suspects his mistress does. When Julie disappears ten years to the day after Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old lover--until her remains are discovered in a secluded park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, 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 enigmatic man who, though long gone, has never been forgotten by the women who loved him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix Brewer left five women behind. Now there are four. Does one of them know the truth?\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/em\u003e(starred review)\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDead is dead. Missing is gone . . . \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Felix Brewer vanishes on July 4, 1976, to avoid serving a fifteen-year prison sentence for mail fraud, he leaves behind five devastated women: his sophisticated wife, Bambi, their three lovely daughters, and his devoted young mistress, Julie. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband or his money might be, she suspects his mistress does. When Julie disappears ten years to the day after Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old lover--until her remains are discovered in a secluded park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, 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 enigmatic man who, though long gone, has never been forgotten by the women who loved him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix Brewer left five women behind. Now there are four. 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