{"product_id":"after-i-m-gone-cd-9780062265258","title":"After I'm Gone","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Most Dangerous Thing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eI'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 five women he left behind--his wife, his daughters, and his mistress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDead is dead. Missing is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough 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 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 man who, though long gone, has never been forgotten by the five women who loved him: the enigmatic Felix Brewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix Brewer left five women behind. Now there are four. Does at least one of them know the truth?\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/em\u003e(starred review)","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50343097925905,"sku":"CIN0062265253VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062265253.jpg?v=1751289679","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/after-i-m-gone-buch-laura-lippman-9780062265258","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}