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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.

Though Bambi has no idea where her husband – or his money – might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress, Julie. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi’s world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Thanks to his lucrative if not always legal businesses, she and their three ­little girls live in luxury. And when he does, no one will ever be the same.When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette ‘Bambi’ Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy will find the truth. And at the center is the missing man Felix Brewer. What he discovers is a tangled web stretching over three decades that connects five intriguing women. 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. When Julie 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 eventually found.

Though Bambi has no idea where her husband-or his money-might be, she suspects one woman does: his mistress, Julie.

But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi’s comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Thanks to his lucrative-if not all legal-businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I’d Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man’s disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind.