After I'm Gone

<p>Laura Lippman the acclaimed <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Most Dangerous Thing I'd Know You Anywhere</em> and <em>What the Dead Know</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>