The Night Gardener
Twenty years ago, two young cops watched T. C. Cooke, a master detective, work a murder scene in a ragged community garden in a violent D.C. neigborhood. Today, a real estate rush has done evertything to these streets but change them--and in the same garden, amid the same mayhem, a killer has left a body with an M.O. that the three men recognize fast. T.C. Cooke, long-since retired, is still haunted by the case he never solved. Gus Romone is a decent cop, loyal husband, and father fighting for his son's future. And Dan Holiday hustles for a living after an ugly fall from grace. Now they come together again, hitting the new murder with a desperate, dangerous fervor. For on this hard, bloodstained soil, they have what no one ever gets: the seeds of a second chance...
"Filled with Gut-Wrenching turns of fate and razor sharp, boisterously vivid characters."
--New York Times--
"Pelecanos has the first-rate writer's ability to entertain you and break your heart on the same page."
--Newsweek--
"Pelecanos delivers a dignified, character driven epic that succeeds as both literary novel and page-turner
--Publishers Weekly (Starred review)