{"product_id":"back-to-the-garden-laurie-r-king-9798885780605","title":"Back to the Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life--with potentially fatal consequences--in this gripping standalone novel from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped California--and fought hard to conceal the turmoil and eccentricities within their walls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And now, just as the turmoil seems buried and the Estate prepares to move into a new future, construction work unearths a grim relic of the estate's history: a skull, hidden away some fifty years ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspector Raquel Laing of the SFPD Cold Case Unit has her work cut out for her. Back in the '70s, the Estate was a commune, when its young heir, Rob Gardener, turned the palatial setting into a counterculture Eden of peace, love, and equality. But the '70s were also a time when serial killers preyed on such innocents--monsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just assumed a whole new urgency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCould these bones belong to one of his victims? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For Raquel Laing--a woman who knows all about hidden turmoil and eccentricities--the Gardener bones seem clearly linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estate's archives for evidence of his presence, what she finds there begins to take on a dark reality of its own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverything brings her back to Rob Gardener himself--now a gray-haired recluse, then a troubled young Vietnam vet whose girlfriend vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate, fifty years ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But a lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer, when the commune fell apart and its residents scattered: a young woman, her child, Rob's brother Fort... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case--before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurie R. King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8885780601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798885780605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thorndike Press Large Print\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Library Binding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Laurie R. King","offers":[{"title":"Library Binding","offer_id":44052812693759,"sku":"9798885780605","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68b8478f-ed29-4f78-a1d0-703188c308b5.jpg?v=1685020883","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/back-to-the-garden-laurie-r-king-9798885780605","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}