After I'm Gone (Lippman) - Book Reviews

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Although Ms. Lippman derived her story from the real-life disappearance of a Baltimore crook and also bases Sandy on a real homicide detective, this novel's murder case springs strictly from her own fecund imagination…Ms. Lippman is able to sustain a remarkable degree of detail about all these characters and still keep them sharply distinct and interesting.
Janet Maslin - New York Times


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. [...] Like everything else Lippman has written, After I’m Gone transcends the limits of genre.
Washington Post


Equal parts love story, tragedy and murder mystery, Lippman’s latest thriller delivers twist and emotional depth with its tale of a philandering scheemer whose long-time mistress turns up dead years after he skipped town.
Entertainment Weekly


(Starred review.) On July 4, 1976, shady businessman Felix Brewer escapes the law by fleeing suburban Maryland, leaving behind his wife, Bambi; three daughters; and a mistress, Julie Saxony. So begins bestseller Lippman's finely wrought study of what it means to move forward without answers.
Publishers Weekly


[S]mart and mesmerizing...an involving and elegant novel of the psychological ravages of crime.
Booklist


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