{"product_id":"book-g739","title":"Back to the Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved sites on the West Coast. Its owners thought their secrets were buried forever-but when cold-case investigator Raquel Laing arrives, secrets are all she sees.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eAnd now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new era, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the past: a human skull, hidden away for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eCould the skull belong to one of his victims?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\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 its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\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 had vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eBut a lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate the summer when the commune mysteriously fell apart: a young woman, her child, and Rob's brother, Fort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThe pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case-before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49357472989488,"sku":"BDg739","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49503725650224,"sku":"ZEg739","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49503725682992,"sku":"ZMg739","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/g739-cover.jpg?v=1761381986","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-g739","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}