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  • After I'm Gone

  • By: Laura Lippman
  • Narrated by: Linda Emond
  • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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After I'm Gone

By: Laura Lippman
Narrated by: Linda Emond
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The acclaimed New York Times best-selling 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 behind - his wife, his daughters, and his mistress.

Dead is dead. Missing is gone.

When Felix Brewer meets 19-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 lucrative - if not all legal - businesses, 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 husband - or his money - might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears 10 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.

Now, 26 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?

©2013 Laura Lippman (P)2014 Audible Studios

Critic Reviews

"Lippman writes with clarity and power." (Stephen King)
"One of the best novelists writing today." (Tess Gerritsen)
"Laura Lippman is not just the author of top-notch psychological thrillers, she is one of the finest writers in America." (Mark Billignham)
"What a knock-out she is. A really superb multifaceted storyteller whose Baltimore-based crime and suspense novels are so much more than mere whodunits." (Daily Mail)

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Enjoyable Tale

Whilst not 'great' this was a very enjoyable story with good character development. The story has three main timelines and a number of characters so it can be a bit confusing at times. Tha narrator does a lovely job. The mystery is really secondary to the story of all the main characters and I found the ending very satisfying. I look forward to reading another book by Laura Lippman.

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