The Keeper: A Novel by John Lescroart

By John Lescroart

At the night earlier than Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a shield within the San Francisco County prison, drives to the airport to select up his step-brother for the weekend. once they go back, Hal’s spouse, Katie, has disappeared with no clue.

By the time Dismas Hardy hears approximately this, Katie has been lacking for 5 days. The case moves on the subject of domestic simply because Katie have been seeing Hardy’s spouse, a wedding counselor. by way of this time, the unique lacking people case has develop into a suspected murder, and Hal is the top suspect. And the attorney he desires for his safety is none except Hardy himself.

Hardy calls on his good friend, former murder detective Abe Glitsky, to appear into the case. at the start it sort of feels just like the police may have it correct; the Chases’ marriage used to be fraught with difficulties; Hal’s alibi is suspect; the lifestyles insurance coverage on Katie used to be large. yet Glitsky’s project is to spot different attainable suspects, and there proves to be no scarcity of them: Patti Orosco—rich, attractive, risky, and Hal’s former lover; the nonetheless unknown one that had a up to date affair with Katie; even Hal’s personal step-mother Ruth, green with envy of Katie’s gatekeeping opposed to her grandchildren. And as Glitsky probes extra, he learns of an incident on the San Francisco penitentiary, the place Hal works—only one of the questionable inmate deaths that experience taken position there. Then, whilst Katie’s physique is located no longer 3 blocks from the Chase domestic, murder arrests Hal and he reveals himself an inmate within the very detention center the place he used to paintings, a spot jam-packed with secrets and techniques he understands all too well.

Against this backdrop of conspiracy and corruption, ambiguous factors and suspicious alibis, an obsessed Glitsky closes in at the elusive fact. As different deaths start to pile up he realizes, maybe too overdue, that the subsequent sufferer may be himself.

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If you leave me to get on with my work, some time later today, Inspector Horton,’ she answered brightly. ’ He heard her call as he left. ‘ We can start now. ’ Cantelli shrugged. pmd 46 14/11/2005, 18:15 T IDE OF D EATH 47 Cantelli laughed. ‘She knows her stuff and she can hold her own. I’ve seen Uckfield try to brow beat her without the slightest effect and you know what he can be like when he gets into his stride. ’ The corridor back into the main part of the hospital smelt of cabbage and disinfectant but even that was better than the formaldehyde of the mortuary.

She held his eyes. If she read his thoughts and was embarrassed by them she didn’t show it. She lifted the coffee cup in front of her and took a sip, then pulled a face. Horton guessed it had grown cold. ’ he asked, lightly. She answered as if he’d personally insulted her. ’ He wondered if her terseness was a cover for shyness, or guilt perhaps? He got the impression she didn’t really care that much for her husband but that didn’t mean she had killed him. Their body might not be Thurlow at all, although in a way he hoped it was.

And his future was too irretrievably linked to his past to forget the man. ‘Drop me at the marina, will you, Barney. I want to collect my bike. You return to the station; get those fingerprints over to the Scientific Services for checking. ’ Uckfield roared. I wasn’t playing, thought Horton, standing ramrod stiff the other side of the DCI’s desk. Who had told Uckfield about his encounter with Jarrett? Not Cantelli, surely? ‘Jarrett’s complained to the Super. Says you’ve been harassing him. ’ He might have guessed that Jarrett would go bellyaching right to the top.

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