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005 20151207094854.0
008 180319s2014 nyu g 000 1 eng
010 $a2014000556
019 $a878117858
020 $a9781476709185$qhbk. :$cUSD26.99$
035 $a855605
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dYDXCP$dBDX$dO2C$dOCLCO$dWIM$dUPZ$dRS$dOCLCO$dTWTNM
050 00$aPS3562.E78$bK44 2014
082 00$a813.54$223
100 1 $aLescroart, John T.
245 14$aThe keeper :$ba novel /$cJohn Lescroart
250 $aFirst Atria Books hardcover edition
260 $aNew York :$bAtria Books,$c2014
300 $a306 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aDismas Hardy novels ;$v15
520 $a"On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard inthe San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick up his step-brother for the weekend. When they return,Hal's wife, Katie, has disappeared without a clue. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been missingfor five days. The case strikes close to home because Katie had been seeing Hardy's wife, a marriage counselor. By this time, the original Missing Persons case has becomea suspected homicide, and Hal is the prime suspect. And the lawyer he wants for his defense is none other than Hardy himself. Hardy calls on his friend, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky, to look into the case. At first it seems like the police might have it right; the Chases' marriage was fraught with problems; Hal's alibi is suspect; the life insurance policy on Katie was huge. But Glitsky's mission is to identify other possible suspects, and there proves to be no shortage of them: Patti Orosco--rich, beautiful, dangerous, and Hal's former lover; the still unknown person who had a recent affair with Katie; even Hal's own step-mother Ruth, resentful of Katie's gatekeeping against her grandchildren. And as Glitsky probes further, he learns of an incident at the San Francisco jail, where Hal works--only one of many questionable inmate deaths that have taken place there. Then, when Katie's body is found not three blocks from theChase home, Homicide arrests Hal and he finds himself an inmate in the very jail where he used to work, a place full of secrets he knows all too well. Against this backdrop of conspiracy and corruption, ambiguous motives and suspicious alibis, an obsessed Glitsky closes in on the elusive truth. As other deaths begin to pile up he realizes, perhaps too late, that the next victim might be himself" --$cfrom publisher's web site
650 0$aMissing persons$xFiction