The keeper
(Book)

Includes excerpt from The Fall.

"A young wife and mother named Katie Chase has been missing for days, her husband Hal--a guard in the San Francisco County Jail--the prime suspect. When the police begin talking murder, attorney Dismas Hardy calls on his friend Abe Glitsky, a former homicide detective, to investigate. At first, it seems as if the police might be right: the marriage was fraught with problems; Hal's alibi is shaky; Katie's life insurance policy was huge. But Glitsky's mission is to identify other possible suspects, and there proves to be no shortage. Further probing reveals the jail where Hal works--and where he soon becomes an inmate--is full of suspicious secrets. Glitsky grows obsessed with closing in on the elusive truth, but as more deaths pile up, he realizes--perhaps too late-- that the next victim might very well be himself." -- Page [4] cover.