num_pages: 320
description: 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.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.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.
language: English
title: The Lost Gardens
titlecomplete: The Lost Gardens
genres: Mystery, Fiction, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Gardening, Adult
ratings_count: 412
series: English Garden Mystery
publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks