![]() But when her body is discovered in 2001, an altogether more sinister chain of events is slowly revealed. Ten years after Felix’s disappearance, the mistress, Julie, similarly goes missing, and there is a presumption that she’s gone to join him. After I’m Gone is the story of the five women he left behind – his wife, his mistress and his three daughters. The defining moment occurs at the start of the book, when the patriarch and criminal Felix Brewer absconds out of the country to avoid a jail term. The novel is set in Baltimore and spans more than 50 years in the lives of the Brewer family. New York Times best seller Laura Lippman returns with a classic story of murder and mystery, in which one mans disappearance echoes through the lives of his. This is the author’s 20th novel in 18 years and that wealth of experience leads to a sureness of touch and confidence with narrative that are both utterly beguiling in this epic family drama. Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling 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 wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Laura Lippman is at the forefront of a group of American female writers who are dragging the crime novel into new and intriguing territories in the 21st century. ![]()
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