Garden 2012

• The Garden of Evil by David Hewson\\

• Rose's Garden by Carrie Brown\\

• The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III\\

• Devil's Garden by Ace Atkins\\

• The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper\\

• Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just\\

• The Savage Garden by Mark Mills\\

• The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen\\

• The Stone Flower Garden by Deborah Smith\\

• Susannah's Garden by Debbie Macomber\\

• Rousseau's Garden by Ann Charney\\

• Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside\\

• Garden of Evil by Edna Buchanan\\

• Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver\\

• The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock\\

• Garden of Exile by Aleida Rodríguez\\

Released from the Tower of London by an insurrection against Queen Mary, her half-sister, the twenty-five-year-old Princess Elizabeth immediately puts herself back into harms' way by investigating a multiple poisoning.

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Garden related fiction.

Compiled by Forbes Library Staff | Summaries from ContentCafe | Updated March 2012

• Garden by Yuichi Yokoyama
  Three friends explore a garden made of mechanical parts and other objects after sneaking into the place through a crack in the fence.
  
  
• The Garden of Evil by David Hewson
  The discovery of two corpses next to an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece in an art studio in Rome sends Detective Nic Costa on a quest to uncover the truth about a modern-day crime and a centuries-old secret concealed in the painting.
  
  
• Rose's Garden by Carrie Brown
  After the death of Rose, to whom he was married 50 years, Conrad withdraws from life, becoming increasingly depressed. One day an angel appears with a message from Rose, telling Conrad to stop mourning and start living.
  
  
• The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
  Reluctantly bringing her daughter to her men's club office when her babysitter falls ill, stripper April endeavors to keep her child safe while servicing a wealthy foreign client, while a drunken regular angrily retaliates for being thrown out of the club.
  
  
• Devil's Garden by Ace Atkins
  In this noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history--the 1921 manslaughter case against silent-screen comedy star Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle--Dashiell Hammett investigates what really happened at Arbuckle's San Francisco party and discovers a truth that will change American legal history--and his own life forever.
  
  
• The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper
  For one whose bread and butter is earned with words, Rodriguez practices a determined suspicion about the power they possess. Released from the Tower of London by an insurrection against Queen Mary, her half-sister, the twenty-five-year-old Princess Elizabeth immediately puts herself back into harms' way by investigating a multiple poisoning.
  
  
• Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just
  Settling in Georgetown after rejecting his family's life in politics, newspaper photographer Alec witnesses the GemigrGe gatherings at the home of his next-door neighbors and watches the disintegration of his marriage upon his refusal of an assignment in Vietnam.
  
  
• The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
  Assigned to write about a famous sixteenth-century garden, Cambridge scholar Adam Strickland visits the garden only to discover that the woman to whom the garden was dedicated may have been murdered, a finding that points to a more recent killing.
  
  
• The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
  The discovery of the skeleton of a woman murdered two centuries earlier sends medical examiner Maura Isles on the trail of a long-dead serial killer who terrorized Boston with crimes in which Norris Marshall, a Harvard Medical School student, had become the prime suspect.
  
  
• The Stone Flower Garden by Deborah Smith
  Childhood friends torn apart by an unsolved murder, Darleen Union and Eli Wade are reunited years later as the dark secrets of the past finally come to light.
  
  
• Susannah's Garden by Debbie Macomber
  Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson returns to her childhood home and to the garden she has always loved, where she discovers that some paths were meant to be taken and others were meant to be buried forever.
  
  
• Rousseau's Garden by Ann Charney
  Claire Symons, a 37-year old photographer, is visiting Paris with her older husband, art historian Adrian Arensberg. While he researches French gardens, she investigates why her long-dead mother, Dolly, once a confident sculptor, sank into depression after a trip to Paris 25 years ago.
  
  
• Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside
  In 1925 beautiful, bohemian Diana Pollexfen was celebrating her 30th birthday with a party at a country estate, but the celebrations soured when her husband died, poisoned by a cocktail that had been liberally laced with some of Diana's photographic chemicals.
  
  
• Garden of Evil by Edna Buchanan
  Miami reporter Britt Montero's faith in human nature will be tested when a female serial killer forces her to watch the execution of one of her male victims and kidnaps his daughter.
  
  
• Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver
  Reputed for his vow to take only morally righteous assignments in 1936 New York City, a German American hit man is forced by the government to pose as an Olympic contender and kill a member of Hitler's regime.
  
  
• The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
  The lives and fates of three people--a scientist smuggled into America to work at Los Alamos, a young woman quarantined on a refugee ship in the Atlantic, and a young Japanese girl--collide in August 1945 with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
  
  
• The Garden of Martyrs by Dennis Bock
  A story based on actual events from 1806 traces the arrests and executions of two innocent Irish immigrants, one a simple family man and the other a heartbroken man with a checkered past, who are falsely accused of murder.
  
  
• Garden of Exile by Aleida Rodríguez
  Having left Cuba at the age of nine, Rodriguez's evolution as a writer has been directly influenced by the dubious circumstances of her emigration and subsequent alienation from the Spanish language. Garden of Exile is a book about reconciling this and other falls from innocence and also about the desire for fulfillment, especially with regard to lesbian love.

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