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After I'm Gone

Laura Lippman

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Mar 14, 2015 Anna rated it really liked it

This was an excellent read and I enjoyed it very much. Although I am a fan of the mystery and suspense genre this is the first book that I have read by Laura Lippman even though she has many novels to her name.

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Feb 19, 2015 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Sandy Sanchez is a retired Baltimore cop who now tries to solve cold cases. His latest case is the murder of Julie Saxony in 1986, almost ten years after her married boyfriend, Felix Brewer disappeared. The story jumps between Sandy's investigation and the lives of the Brewers starting with Felix meeting Bambi who becomes his wife. There wasn't much of an actual mystery, more of a character study. ...more

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Jan 31, 2014 Jessica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Lippman is one of my very favorite writers because she continues to grow and develop in her craft at a point when most authors with a similar string of past novels are losing steam. This one resonates powerfully - each of Felix's women is distinct, flawed in blinding ways but also possessed of some sense of decency when pushed. While attentive readers will pick up the clues to the denouement that Lippman lays down, the maturity and power of her writing more than carry the day. And the small came ...more

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Dec 02, 2013 Andy Plonka rated it it was amazing

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Although thing didn't turn out quite the way Felix had imagined, the lives of his extended family were greatly affected by hisdesire to become a non person many years before his actual death. Family dynamics at once at its best and worst. ...more

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