The Keeper

Publisher Marketing: From "New York Times" bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting novel featuring Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky on the hunt for clues about a woman who has gone missing. On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick up his step-brother for the weekend. When they return, Hal s wife, Katie, has disappeared without a clue. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been missing for five days. The case strikes close to home because Katie had been seeing Hardy s wife, a marriage counselor. By this time, the original Missing Persons case has become a suspected homicide, and Hal is the prime suspect. And the lawyer he wants for his defense is none other than Hardy himself. Hardy calls on his friend, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky, to look into the case. At first it seems like the police might have it right; the Chases marriage was fraught with problems; Hal s alibi is suspect; the life insurance policy on Katie was huge. But Glitsky s mission is to identify other possible suspects, and there proves to be no shortage of them: Patti Orosco rich, beautiful, dangerous, and Hal s former lover; the still unknown person who had a recent affair with Katie; even Hal s own step-mother Ruth, resentful of Katie s gatekeeping against her grandchildren. And as Glitsky probes further, he learns of an incident at the San Francisco jail, where Hal works only one of many questionable inmate deaths that have taken place there. Then, when Katie s body is found not three blocks from the Chase home, Homicide arrests Hal and he finds himself an inmate in the very jail where he used to work, a place full of secrets he knows all too well. Against this backdrop of conspiracy and corruption, ambiguous motives and suspicious alibis, an obsessed Glitsky closes in on the elusive truth. As other deaths begin to pile up he realizes, perhaps too late, that the next victim might be himself." Review Citations: Booklist 05/01/2014 pg. 36 (EAN 9781476709208, Open Ebook) Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2013 pg. 66 (EAN 9781476709185, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 03/17/2014 (EAN 9781476709185, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2014 (EAN 9781476709185, Hardcover) Booklist 05/01/2014 pg. 36 (EAN 9781476709185, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Lescroart, John John Lescroart is the author of twenty-five previous novels (sixteen New York Times bestsellers), including the 13th Juror, Damage, The Hunter, The Ophelia Cut, and The Keeper. His books have sold more than ten million copies and have been translated into twenty-two languages in seventy-five countries. He lives in Northern California. Contributor Bio:  Colacci, David David Colacci has been an actor and a director for over thirty years, performing coast-to-coast in lead roles of plays by a variety of playwrights. He has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years. He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included on Best of Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal. He currently lives in New York with his wife and children.