La obra maestra de Pelecanos y la que le convirtio en un Best-Seller en Estados unidos . Cuando el cadaver de un adolescente aparece en un parque publico de Washington, el detective Gus Ramone revive con intensidad una investigacion en la que participo veinte años atras. El asesino, a quien los medios dieron en llamar el Jardinero Nocturno, sembro de victimas los parques de la ciudad y salio impune. El nuevo crimen reunira a los tres hombres que participaron en aquel caso y les dara la oportunidad de cerrarlo. Tal vez ahora consigan atrapar al Jardinero Nocturno / The haunting story of three copsone good, one bad, one brokenand the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making. Gus Ramone is good police, a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the citys Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa, whose body has been found in a community garden. The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone worked as a patrol cop 20 years earlier, when he and his partner, Dan Doc Holiday, assisted a legendary detective named T.C. Cook. The series of murders, all involving local teenage victims, was never solved. In the years since, Holiday has left the force under a cloud of morals charges. Cook has retired, but he has never stopped agonizing about the Night Gardener killings. The new case draws the three men together, re-igniting the love, regret, and anger that once burned between them, and old ghosts walk once more as they try to lay to rest the monster who has stalked their dreams.