Garden of Secrets Past

A POISONOUS LEGACY

Lawrence Kingston can't resist the chance to investigate an unsolved death at renowned country estate Sturminster. A man's body was found near a strange monument whose inscription has never been deciphered. But the retired botany professor is less than delighted when it's revealed that he'll be working for his old enemy—and Sturminster's unscrupulous owner—Lord Francis Morley. Then a local historian, a man who claimed to have information implicating the Morley family, is poisoned.

With both murders inextricably entwined with the Morleys' sinister past, Lawrence finds treacherous secrets and suspects multiplying like aspidistras. But solving the ancient puzzle designed by three of the eighteenth century's most brilliant minds is fast leading him to a legendary lost treasure, a ruthless killer—and a fate darker than any grave.…