Title: The keeper
Description: 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.
Subjects: Dismas Hardy (Fictitious character), Murder, Police, Fiction, Investigation, Kriminalroman, Missing persons, Abe Glitsky (Fictitious character), Amerikanisches Englisch, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Missing persons, fiction, Fiction, legal, Glitsky, abe (fictitious character), fiction, Hardy, dismas (fictitious character), fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2014-05-25, New York Times bestseller, Personnes disparues, Romans, nouvelles, Thrillers, Suspense, Legal
Places: San Francisco, California, San Francisco (Calif.)