Back to the garden: a novel
(Book)

Book Cover
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for

Average user rating: 3.7 stars
User ratings:
5 star
 
(0)
4 star
 
(2)
3 star
 
(1)
2 star
 
(0)
1 star
 
(0)
Status:
Cary Regional - Mystery has 3
KING
Duraleigh Road - Mystery
KING
East Regional - Mystery
KING

Also in This Series

Copies

Location
Call Number
Status
Cary Regional - Mystery
KING
Marketplace Display
Cary Regional - Mystery
KING
Checked out
Cary Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Cary Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Duraleigh Road - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
East Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Eva H. Perry Regional - Mystery
KING
Checked out
Eva H. Perry Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Eva H. Perry Regional - Mystery
KING
Checked out
Fuquay-Varina Community - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Green Road Community - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Holly Springs Community - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Leesville Community - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Middlecreek Community - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
North Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
North Regional - Mystery
KING
Checked out
North Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Northeast Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Northeast Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Oberlin Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Oberlin Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Remote Storage - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Richard B Harrison - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Southeast Regional - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Southeast Regional - Mystery
KING
Checked out
Wake Forest Community - Mystery
KING
On Shelf
Zebulon Community - Mystery
KING
On Shelf

More Details

Published:
New York : Bantam Books, [2022].
Format:
Book
Edition:
First Edition.
Physical Desc:
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593496565, 0593496566, 9780593496565

Notes

Description
"A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. The 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. 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. 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. Could these bones belong to one of his victims? 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. Everything 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. 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... The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case-before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes."--,Provided by publisher.

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

King, L. R. (2022). Back to the garden: a novel. First Edition. Bantam Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

King, Laurie R. 2022. Back to the Garden: A Novel. Bantam Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

King, Laurie R, Back to the Garden: A Novel. Bantam Books, 2022.

MLA Citation (style guide)

King, Laurie R. Back to the Garden: A Novel. First Edition. Bantam Books, 2022.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

Staff View

Grouped Work ID:
f3be4566-53df-dc41-4dca-f7e6cc6d9466
Go To Grouped Work

Record Information

Last Horizon Extract TimeAug 11, 2025 03:22:06 PM
Last File Modification TimeAug 12, 2025 05:11:46 AM
Last Grouped Work Modification TimeAug 12, 2025 05:08:42 AM

MARC Record

LEADER05859pam a2200781 i 4500
001  2022010985
003DLC
00520250705080000.0
008220311s2022    nyu           000 1 eng  
010 |a  2022010985
020 |a 9780593496565 |c $28.00
020 |a 0593496566 |c $28.00
020 |a 9780593496565 |q (hbk.)
020 |z 9780593496572 |q (ebk.)
035 |a (OCoLC)2022010985
040 |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d DLC |d TnLvILS |d UtOrBLW
042 |a pcc
043 |a n-us-ca
05000 |a PS3561.I4813 |b B33 2022
08200 |a 813/.54 |2 23
092 |a KING
1001 |a King, Laurie R. |e author. |4 aut
24510 |a Back to the garden : |b a novel / |c Laurie R. King.
250 |a First Edition.
2641 |a New York : |b Bantam Books, |c [2022]
300 |a 322 pages ; |c 25 cm
336 |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
337 |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
338 |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
520 |a "A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. The 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. 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. 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. Could these bones belong to one of his victims? 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. Everything 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. 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... The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case-before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes."-- |c Provided by publisher.
6500 |a Policewomen |v Fiction
6500 |a Murder |x Investigation |v Fiction
6500 |a Cold cases (Criminal investigation) |v Fiction
6500 |a Communal living |v Fiction
6510 |a California |v Fiction
6557 |a Detective and mystery fiction |2 lcgft
77608 |i Online version: |a King, Laurie R. |t Back to the garden |d New York : Bantam Dell, 2022 |z 9780593496572 |w (DLC) 2022010986
949 |b 32046827677647 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l CRY |n 8108313 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 10 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677662 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l CRY |n 8108315 |o 0 |s o |w 07/18/2022 |x 12 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677423 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l CRY |n 8108306 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 18 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677498 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l CRY |n 8108293 |o 0 |s DSPMP |w 07/18/2022 |x 9 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677340 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l DUR |n 8108298 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 14 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677522 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l ERL |n 8108282 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 12 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677365 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l EVA |n 8108300 |o 0 |s o |w 07/18/2022 |x 17 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677589 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l EVA |n 8108288 |o 1 |s l |w 07/18/2022 |x 8 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677399 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l EVA |n 8108303 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 15 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677613 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l EVA |n 8108310 |o 0 |s o |w 07/18/2022 |x 11 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677605 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l FUQ |n 8108309 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 8 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677381 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l GRE |n 8108302 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 10 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677415 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l HSP |n 8108305 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 16 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677431 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l LAB |n 8108307 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 14 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677472 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l LEE |n 8108291 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 9 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677639 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l MID |n 8108312 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 7 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677506 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l NER |n 8108294 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 9 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677324 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l NER |n 8108296 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 11 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677332 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l NOR |n 8108297 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 12 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677373 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l NOR |n 8108301 |o 0 |s o |w 07/18/2022 |x 18 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677316 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l NOR |n 8108295 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 17 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677654 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l OBR |n 8108314 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 14 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677449 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l OBR |n 8108308 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 10 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677357 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l RBH |n 8108299 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 13 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677464 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l SER |n 8108290 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 12 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677407 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l SER |n 8108304 |o 0 |s o |w 07/18/2022 |x 14 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677555 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l WAK |n 8108285 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 10 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677548 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l WRL |n 8108284 |o 0 |s st |w 07/18/2022 |x 5 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677480 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l WRL |n 8108292 |o 0 |s st |w 07/18/2022 |x 5 |y BK
949 |b 32046827677456 |c SYSMYST |d KING |l ZEB |n 8108289 |o 0 |s i |w 07/18/2022 |x 13 |y BK
999 |a 765816