{"product_id":"back-to-the-garden-library-binding","title":"Back to the Garden - Library Binding","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaurie R. King\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurie R. King\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning, bestselling author of seventeen Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Marinelli, and many acclaimed standalone novels such as \u003ci\u003eFolly, Touchstone, The Bones of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLockdown. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in Northern California, where she is at work on her next Mary Russell mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735774662719,"sku":"9798885780605","price":77.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/daced6c70dc8680b067372b9b3d4a138.webp?v=1765144618","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/back-to-the-garden-library-binding","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}