The Keepsake is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.


Copyright © 2008 by Tess Gerritsen


All rights reserved.


Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Gerritsen, Tess.

The keepsake: a novel / Tess Gerritsen.

p. cm.

1. Rizzoli, Jane, Detective (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Policewomen—Fiction. 3. Women—Crimes against—Fiction. 4. Medical examiners (Law)—Fiction. 5. Women forensic scientists—Fiction. 6. Boston (Mass.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3557.E687K45 2008                           813'.54—dc22                           2008028131


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