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Bantam Read Kindle PreviewA 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. And 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 homeβs past: a human skull, hidden away for decades. Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, the Estateβs 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 innocentsβmonsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just surged back into the public eye. Could the skull belong to one of his victims? To Raquelβa woman who knows all about colorful pastsβthe bones clearly seem linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estateβs archives to look for signs of his presence, what she unearths begins to take on a dark reality all of its own. Everything 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. But 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 Robβs brother, Fort. The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this caseβbefore The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes. Start Reading BACK TO THE GARDEN Now
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