{"product_id":"back-to-the-garden-9780593496565","title":"Back to the Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laurie R. King\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bantam\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bantam\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mystery \u0026amp; Detective - Historical\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\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003ePopSugar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA magnificent house, vast formal gardens, a golden family that shaped California, and a colorful past filled with now-famous artists: the Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new future, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the home's past: a human skull, hidden away for decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, the Estate's young heir, Rob Gardener, turned his palatial home into a counterculture commune of peace, love, and equality. But that was also a time when serial killers preyed on innocents--monsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just surged back into the public eye. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCould the skull belong to one of his victims? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo Raquel--a woman who knows all about colorful pasts--the bones clearly seem linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estate's archives to look for signs of his presence, what she unearths begins to take on a dark reality all of its own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverything she finds keeps bringing her back to Rob Gardener himself. While he might be a gray-haired recluse now, back then he was a troubled young Vietnam vet whose girlfriend vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut a lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer when the commune mysteriously fell apart: a young woman, her child, and Rob's brother, Fort. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case--before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes.","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45036397428887,"sku":"9780593496565","price":1858.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780593496565.webp?v=1769213246","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/back-to-the-garden-9780593496565","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}