More Than Meets the Eye

A beautiful English garden. An ugly murder. And a “gripping . . . surprising” case for London detectives Lambert and Hook (Publishers Weekly).
 
Dennis Cooper has an idyllic life as curator of the national historical site, Westbourne Park. Overseeing the spectacular flowering grounds, supervising its popular restaurant, and making sure the daily throngs of tourists leave happy is a perfect job. If there’s a gnat in the dream it’s his wife, Alison, a woman so bored and isolated she could scream. But when Gloucestershire’s Superintendent John Lambert and Detective Sergeant Bert Hook are called to the Eden-like landmark, it’s to take in only one site: Dennis’s dead body in a pond on the edge of the gardens.
 
The suspects are growing wild: his philandering wife and her lover; the restaurant’s nerve-fried staff; a new young intern from Glasgow; and a shady gardener with a violent temper. It’s clear someone held a grudge. Less clear is Dennis’s own shady past. And Lambert and Hook are determined to dig it up.