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    The Keeper
    The Keeper
    The Keeper
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Keeper

    Written by Ellen Jensen Abbott

    Narrated by Jorjeana Marie

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    Abisina is ready to assume the role of Keeper that has been her destiny, leading the future of the Watersmeet community. But the survival of the land depends on the north and south—the centaurs, dwarves, fairies, humans, and fauns—joining together to confront a gathering evil. The rift that opened in the Mountains Eternal has continued to spew forth terrible creatures: überwolves, leviathan-birds, minotaurs. Abisina knows that the most challenging creature of all has arrived—though what shape it will take is still a mystery. She sets out to bring the folk together to confront this unknown evil, but the land has never been more divided. As she faces hostile centaurs, ambitious fairies, the destruction of the only home she’s ever known, and separation from those who love her, Abisina doubts if she has the strength to be the leader that everyone needs. Even the power of the Keeper’s necklace doesn’t seem to be enough—and when that is taken from her, she’s left on the brink of hopelessness. Can Abisina’s faith in the power of love, acceptance, and unity that she’s learned from her friends and family survive this final test?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 3, 2015
    ISBN9781501237119
    The Keeper
    Author

    Ellen Jensen Abbott

    Ellen Jensen Abbott thinks that life would be perfect if she could move her home, her job, her friends, and her family to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where she grew up. Until she can convince everyone to join her, she’s content to be writing, teaching English, and living with her husband and their two children in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Visit her online: www.ellenjensenabbott.com

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    • 5/5
      The best John Lescroart novel yet! I truly enjoy the Dismas Hardy series. This one features the character of Abe Glitsky and is a wonderful compilation of all of the dimensions that readers admire and respect in this character! Outstanding!
    • 3/5
       After several really good Lescroart novels, this one flagged and became less intriguing. Glitsky, the homicide detective, has faded and Dismas (Lawyer) seems less potent than in earlier novels.
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      The best John Lescroart novel yet! I truly enjoy the Dismas Hardy series. This one features the character of Abe Glitsky and is a wonderful compilation of all of the dimensions that readers admire and respect in this character! Outstanding!
    • 5/5
      [The Keeper] by John LescroartDismas Hardy Series Book #154.5&#8733'sFrom the Book: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.My Thoughts:Most of the story is told from the point of view of former homicide detective Abe Glitsky. Hardy has hired him to find out who killed his client's wife. Glitsky is a retired detective, so he knows what to do and wastes no time in doing it...but runs into road blocks that are doing more harm than good at every turn. Just when he thinks he will never be a "real cop" again the DA needs a new investigator to take over when one of his people is killed. Hardy talks the D.A. into hiring Glitsky so that it will give him back his police authority but still with the imperative to find out the truth. The truth takes many different turns and even though everyone knows what the truth is....a major problem is the truth can't be proven.about half way through the book I was enjoying the story and was sure that Glitsky and I had it all figured out...but think again. Well done Mr. Lescoart. The story didn't seem to move along very fast in places but it was a excellent read but somewhat lacked t the usual amount of suspense. No court action...which Dismas Hardy is famous for in these books...which was a little disappointing.
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