Felix Brewer loves both his beautiful wife and his beautiful mistress, not to mention his three beautiful daughters. Yet he leaves them all when he feels the law closing in because of his shady business dealings. He is not heard from again.
Years later the body of Julie, the mistress, is found murdered. Years after that, Roberto "Sandy" Sanchez, a retired Baltimore cop who still works cold cases, decides to look into Julie's murder.
Lippmann skips back and forth through time, tracking the lives of Bambi, the wife, and the three daughters, not to mention Felix's best friends, his lawyer and his bail bondsman. For much of the way the novel seems not to be a murder mystery but rather the story of a lonely woman, slowly aging, who still misses her wayward husband and struggles to survive and provide for her family, sometimes with assistance from that lawyer friend. Meanwhile Sandy tries to uncover any evidence that will shed light on what really happened to Julie.
This is a fine, twisty novel that will satisfy Lippman's many fans and create new ones. Those fans may especially enjoy the walk-on part played by Tess Moynaghan, the private investigator in a series of Lippman mysteries.
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