The Night Gardener, (Paperback)

from LeHack

The story opens with a murder scene in 1985 and jumps to 2005. Cook, who had the "Palindrome" murder cases in 1985 is now retired. Holiday, another cop at the scene in 1985, has left the police force in less than favorable circumstances. Gus Ramone, also on the scene in 1985 with Holiday, is now ...

from Aimala

Publisher: Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa, whose body has been found in a local community garden. The murder unearths intense memories of a ...

from amf0001

Critics and authors raved about this book but I couldn't get into it. I tried, and put it down, and then tried again and on my third attempt gave up. I only got 60 or so pages in . There was a lot of information given about a lot of characters, and I couldn't keep track of them all, and the threa...

from bohemiangirl35

Two young cops, partners, guard the perimeter of a crime scene where a young girl has been shot in the head and left in a community garden. The lead detective on the scene berates them for letting a bystander through when the woman throws up near the body. The homicide is one in a string of murde...

from JohnWCuluris

My first non-series Pelecanos. The return of a serial killer after twenty years of dormancy brings together three men, a detective and two former cops, one retired, one forced out. Perhaps because of my preference for series characters, I closed this book thinking, Interesting but not great. Yet ...