When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette 'Bambi' Gottschalk at a dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes.
New York Times best seller Laura Lippman returns with a classic story of murder and mystery, in which one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of his wife, daughters - and mistress.
When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette 'Bambi' Gottschalk at a dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously 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 herself disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old lover - until her remains are found in a secluded wooded park.
Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, 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, jealously, resentment and greed stretching over the three decades and three generations that connect these five very different women. And at the center of every woman's story is the man who, though long gone, has never been forgotten: the enigmatic Felix Brewer.
Laura Lippman's New York Times bestseller is a florid noir that spans the decades. Murder and mayhem intertwine as shyster Felix Brewer disappears and leaves his wife, mistress and three daughters to untangle his messy past. Grazia
Laura Lippman, geb. 959 in Atlanta, Georgia. 1961 zog die Familie in die Nähe von Washington D.C. und dann, 1965, weiter nach Baltimore, Maryland. Nach einem Abschluss an der Nothwestern University's Medill School of Journalism arbeitete sie einige Jahre als Journalistin. 1989 kehrte sie nach Baltimore zurück, wo sie heute als freie Schriftstellerin lebt.
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When the charming Felix Brewer mysteriously vanishes on the Fourth of July 1976, his wife Bambi suspects that only one woman knows where he's gone - his devoted young mistress, Julie. When Julie herself disappears ten years later, everyone assumes she's left to join Felix - until her remains are found in a secluded wooded park. Now Roberto 'Sandy' Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective, is investigating her murder.
