After I'm Gone - Tapa dura

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)

The characters in Laura Lippman's After I'm Gone are so well drawn that it's easy to forget why they happen to be connected...Lippman is able to sustain a remarkable degree of detail about all [the] characters and still keep them sharply distinct and interesting. (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. 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 Washington Post)

One of richest portraits of (four) complicated women in ages. Smart, resonant, moving, deeply rewarding. (Megan Abbott Author of The End of Everything and Dare Me)

'Her books unfold the secrets of ordinary middle-class American women in effortless prose and great acuity. After I'm Gone could well be her best yet, a multi-narrative story about a man who falls in love with a woman and then disappears. A clever, gripping, page-turning delight.' (Catholic Herald)

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

Unputdownable ... Lippman doesn't deal in absolutes and it's her exploration of the nuance of loss-and its permeating presence, like carbon monoxide slowly poisoning the characters and their air-that makes this a must-read. (Oprah)

Lippmann is one of those writers, like Flynn, whose books are more than their marketing ... Fans of Tana French and Donna Tartt, take note. (Flavorwire)

'A riveting mystery involving great fully realised characters.' (Woman & Home)

'In Laura Lippman's excellent After I'm Gone, Felix Brewer is a husband, father and adulterer . . . Lippman's insights into the psychology of family interactions are superbly convincing, and the gentle pace of the novel's first half leads to many twists and a clever, disturbing resolution.' (Marcel Berlins The Times)