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The Night Gardener - George Pelecanos
The Night Gardener
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The haunting story of three copsone good, one bad, one brokenand the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making. Gus Ramone is good police, a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the citys Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local... show more
The haunting story of three copsone good, one bad, one brokenand the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making. Gus Ramone is good police, a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the citys Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa, whose body has been found in a community garden. The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone worked as a patrol cop 20 years earlier, when he and his partner, Dan Doc Holiday, assisted a legendary detective named T.C. Cook. The series of murders, all involving local teenage victims, was never solved. In the years since, Holiday has left the force under a cloud of morals charges. Cook has retired, but he has never stopped agonizing about the Night Gardener killings. The new case draws the three men together, re-igniting the love, regret, and anger that once burned between them, and old ghosts walk once more as they try to lay to rest the monster who has stalked their dreams.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780316156509 (0316156507)
ASIN: 316156507
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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Dantastic Book Reviews
Dantastic Book Reviews rated it
3.0
In the bygone age of 1985, detective TC Cooke, with young cops Gus Ramone and Dan Holiday in tow, tried to save a string of murders dubbed the Palindrome Killer, aka the Night Gardener, and failed. Twenty years later, a murder with the same telltale characteristics occurs. Has the killer resurface...
All the Time in the World
All the Time in the World rated it
4.0 The Night Gardener
Pelecanos's books are just my kind of reading - a mystery/police procedural that digs into the dark heart of human nature. Gus Ramone is a Washington DC homicide detective and former Internal Affairs investigator, 20 years on the job, married to a woman he still loves (and who still loves him), try...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
3.0
mp3 workaday Oooh this more like itRead By: Richard M DavidsonTotal Duration: 11:29:59blurb - Book Description================From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Pelecanos (Drama City) delivers a dignified, character-driven epic that succeeds as both literary novel and page-...
Tina's Reading Books
Tina's Reading Books rated it
4.0
I am a die hard fan of the HBO series The Wire. i have always maintained that that tv show "read" more like a novel than it did a typical tv show. It had characters with depth, there were no good guys and bad guys only people who were varying shades of grey. It had layers and a definite, recogniz...
cczarneckikernus
cczarneckikernus rated it
3.0 The Night Gardener
good crime novel.
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