After I'm Gone A Novel

"Lippman is a writing powerhouse." - USA Today

"She's one of the best novelists around, period." - Washington Post

"Lippman has enriched literature as a whole." - Chicago Sun-Times

"pure delight." - People

"enthralling" - Houston Chronicle

"Lippman is one of the deftest hands at whodunit around, and the great characters make for an engaging read." - Dallas Morning News

"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

"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

"In this edge-of-your seat tale, a man's disappearance has unexpected consequences for the women he's left behind." - O, the Oprah Magazine

"Lippman is a bet you just can't lose." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Smart and mesmerizing. . . . Lippman stretches a richly textured canvas that depicts, with wit and sensitivity, the wounded but tough women Felix left behind. 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." - Booklist

"smart and mesmerizing [...] an involving and elegant novel of the psychological ravages of crime" - Booklist

"I never miss Laura Lippman's novels." - Anna Quindlen, New York Times bestselling author

"Lippman pushes the edges." - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"Laura Lippman delivers it all-suspenseful stories, characters so real . . . genuine emotion. I love her books." - Harlan Coben

"Despite the murder at its center, this is less a suspenseful whodunit than 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." - Library Journal (starred review)