"Published in 2022 by arrangement with Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC" --Title page verso.

"The Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden. Now, restoration work digs up a grim relic of the home's past: a human skull. Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, Rob Gardener, turned his home into a commune of peace, love and equality. But that was also a time when serial killers preyed on innocents. As Raquel dives into the Estate's archives, everything she finds keeps bringing her back to Rob Gardener himself. A lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer when the commune mysteriously fell apart. The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case before another Gardener vanishes"--,Back cover.