They Picked the Wrong Gardener
READING AGE 16+
Elias Cole is the quiet old man at the end of Hollyhock Lane — all roses, stray cats, and soft smiles. When a gang starts squeezing his neighbors off the street and lays a hand on the ten-year-old boy he loves like a grandson, they make one fatal mistake: they assume the past he buried stayed buried. The black band tattooed around his wrist has a name in the underworld. Tonight, they're going to learn it.
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They went for Sarah the night the story broke, because Victor understands the order of things: first the witnesses, then the evidence, and last of all the man.
It happened on the third level of the hospital parking structure at the conclusion of her double shift. The overhead sodium fixture above her station wagon had been smashed. She ……
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