Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, Id Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one mans disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind.When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette Bambi Gottschalk at a Valentines Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambis comfortable 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 mistress, Julie.
