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Back to the Garden

De : Laurie R. King
Lu par : Vivienne Leheny
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    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.

    ©2023 Laurie R. King (P)2023 Recorded Books

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    • Needler
    • 16/09/2022

    I remember when......

    This was a engaging read, with seamless transitions between two time frames. Laurie was able to bring the past alive, taking me to my teenage years of wishing to be "there" at the core of the flower child revolution. All these decades later, it is easy to forget what it was like at the time, and although I think much of the hippy/commune experience was hype, King described it from many sides, and with a great deal of nostalgia. I'm not sure why mystery writers are so enamored of serial killers (I usually avoid them in the mysteries I read), but there were a number of them during the time period. I'm not sure what has happened to serial killers since then. Have shooting rampages taken the place of serial crimes, or are the serial killers just much better at hiding their crimes? At any rate, King managed to handle the antagonist without an overload of creepiness, and avoided the usual looming thriller plot. This has the makings of a new series, which I would hardily support.

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    • SarahMc
    • 25/09/2022

    Excellent

    This is the kind of book I could almost start over immediately, for the story, the characters, and the narration (wonderful narrator).
    It has everything I love in a mystery -- or in any audio book, for that matter.

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    • Will
    • 04/12/2022

    A decent book from a talented author

    This work is a bit of a mess. The concept is stellar, but the execution is uneven. Each character was interesting enough, and the prose was compelling throughout. Unfortunately, the book suffers from lack of focus. Who’s the protagonist? When is the main timeline? After finishing the book, I’m not certain I can answer those questions.

    With a less-talented author, this would have been a miserable experience. But Ms King has such skill that she holds it together just enough to make it work. I’ll gladly read a sequel, but I hope it is a better book.

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    • CarterFSU
    • 16/09/2022

    What a Great Story!

    I really enjoyed this stand-alone book by Laurie R King. The characters were rich and vibrant and the story captured my attention from the start. The narration of the audiobook was top-notch and definitely added to my enjoyment of the story.

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    • Christina
    • 25/09/2022

    Another Laurie King Masterpiece

    Once again, (after reading Sherlock Holmes, and Other San Francisco detective-), I was completely captured, and engrossed in this mystery. As usual, surprises, and a well plotted mystery. Highly recommend-a fab listen (especially doing boring housework such as cleaning kitchen, folding clothes, unloading dishwasher etc. thank you Laurie King for making day to day boring housework something to look forward to so I can listen.

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    • Kathleen
    • 26/11/2022

    Disappointing...

    Ms. King, I was so looking forward to listening to your new book but I stopped listening at Chapter 14. There were two issues with the narration that ruined the book for me. The first is the narration is so slow I put the speed at 1.1 which helped a bit. The second issue was the monotone of the narrator. After Jenny Sterlin's outstanding narrations in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, I am so dissapointed. I cannot give more than one star as I couldn't finish the recorded book. So I will read the book instead.

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    • karin frye
    • 24/09/2022

    May be my last Laurie R King novel

    So disappointed in this book. So many to mention. It didn’t even feel much less read like one of her stories. You’d think with a geriatric serial killer and a hippie commune in 70’s CA it would hold your interest.

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    • TL
    • 16/11/2022

    meh

    I listened to the whole thing because I was curious about the 'whodoneit' result. But I tuned out often because the writing kind of droned on and was hard to follow.

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    • ili pika
    • 16/10/2022

    Narrator makes this book

    This is a well-crafted story, with the currently popular dynamic where the narrative flips back and forth between "then" and "now," using the past as a slow reveal of the mystery. I found "then" engaging, full of characters with a variety of personalities and motivations. The "now" portion seemed to exist merely to facilitate the telling of the past. This was disappointing, with the main character being so flat and unemotional as to be uninteresting. And, sure, she kept telling me she was desperate to solve the case, but it felt like she just had nothing better to do. The denouement is slightly more exciting, but not much, there is no real tension to it.

    There's also a romantic element, approached with the same flat lack of enthusiasm, and I wondered why she was being pursued so ardently. I sure didn't see it, and certainly felt no chemistry between the pair. The result is that I cared about the supporting cast and would gladly read more about them in a sequel. This detective, not so much.

    This uneven writing occurs in the Russell/Holmes series also. Essentially good and engaging tales until one hits the romance between Russell and Holmes. With the huge age gap between them, it moves straight into pedophile territory, with an inherent ick factor that left me wanting a shower. Ms. King clearly knows how to write; I'm just never sure why she tells her stories in this way.

    The narrator brings this book to life, making up for some of the deficits in the writing.

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    • Cara Leverett
    • 27/11/2022

    Another great book in this series!

    I loved this book as much or more than the others in this series and in King’s other series!

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