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	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
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AFTER I'M GONE

Laura Lippman

An addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind.

One of Baltimore's last professional gamblers disappears in the 1970s, leaving behind a very beautiful wife, three young daughters, and a mistress. And, somewhere, a lot of money. The story picks up thirty years later when a retired homicide cop working on cold cases develops a fascination with the murder of a stripper -- who happened to be the gambler's mistress and the woman he entrusted with a suitcase full of cash when he fled.

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Book Published 2014-02-01 by William Morrow

Comments

Lippman is as skillful at plot as she is at characters and setting, and the twists in the novel's final pages are both surprising and satisfying. They contain some well-earned messages about love and loyalty, illusion and delusion. Like everything else Lippman has written, After I'm Gone transcends the limits of genre. Like George Pelecanos, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane and a handful of others, she writes books that are great fun but also serious fun. (Jonathan Yardley) Read more...

"... a masterly novel of character, with secrets skillfully and gradually revealed. Revel in the pace and pleasures of this book ... that should add to Lippman's literary luster." (Starred Review)

"Coaxing the inevitable out of the improbable, Lippman is a bet you just can't lose." (starred review)

One of the best novelists around, period.

Faber & Faber

"As she traces the matrix of longing, jealousy, and betrayal that led to Julie's murder, Lippman incisively explores marriage, Jewish family life, class distinctions, and the power and liability of physical beauty, thus creating an involving and elegant novel of the psychological ravages of crime." (Donna Seaman, starred review)

Lippman has enriched literature as a whole.