The Keeper: A Novel

From the iconic crime writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” ( The New Yorker ) and has been called “incandescent” by Stephen King “absolutely mesmerizing” by Gillian Flynn and “unputdownable” ( People ) comes the third and final book in the million-copy-bestselling Cal Hooper trilogy. On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Arknakelty a girl goes missing. Sweet loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead she’s dead in the river. In a close-knit small town a death like this isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now and he owes them loyalty but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty’s tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel’s death and th