The Gardener

Melanie Richardson died, the upper middle class wife of a cop in Walnut Creek. Her body was found beaten, covered in bruises and all signs pointed to Esteban the local landscaper. He confessed under the duress of a police beating but Anita, his wife, thinks different. She swore her man was innocent and she hires the best private investigator of the East Bay in Oakland California, Katie Lovecraft. The sophisticated sleuth gets to the bottom of the murder mystery and unveils the secrets of her beau Vi, Esteban, and the real murderer along the way. She also reveals herself in all of its morally ambiguous complexities.