The Lost Gardens: An English Garden Mystery - Softcover

ONE FAMILY'S LEGACY
When California winemaker Jamie Gibson inherits Wickersham Priory, she moves to England to cultivate a new life on the massive 200-acre estate. But the once-grand gardens are now in disrepair, their overgrowth obscuring pathways and erasing buildings. Jamie vows to restore the gardens in honor of her benefactor, who happens to be a complete stranger.
 
IS ROOTED IN BETRAYAL...
She hires Lawrence Kingston, a retired professor of botany, to reproduce the gardens from their heyday. Unable to tame his curiosity, Lawrence begins investigating why Jamie was named heir to this vast fortune. His interest grows when he discovers the old Wickersham well that now holds human bones--and the truth of a long-ago murder.
 
AND WITHERED BY REVENGE
Kingston's meddling has tilled up the past, but when workers on their project keep turning up dead, he and Jamie must escape their present thorny situation...or they too risk being buried amidst the garden's secrets.
 
 
"A delightful tour filled with flowers, weeds, and corpses."--Midwest Book Review
"[Eglin's] talent is in full bloom."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

Before publishing his first English Garden mystery, The Blue Rose, ANTHONY EGLIN spent many years on the creative side of the advertising and marketing business. Forsaking that career to indulge in his passion for gardening, he started the Larkspur Company, where he co-produced a series of bestselling garden videotapes. Anthony is a member of the American Rose Society and his small garden has been featured in a number of magazines and newspapers. In 1995 he was awarded Garden Design magazine's Gold Trowel Award for Best Rose Garden. Born in England, Anthony now lives with his wife, Suzie, in Sonoma, California.