home grown is the 16th book in the Garth Ryland mystery series that
has taken him from the graves of Navoe Cemetery to the wilds of
Mitchell's Woods to the cave of Matotamah to the edge of Wampler's
Pit, and in and out of the arms of some of Oakalla's most
beautiful, intriguing, and dangerous women. Called "an exemplary
series hero" by Publishers Weekly, Ryland lives and works in the
small town of Oakalla, Wisconsin ("Lake Woebegone made sinister")
where passions run high and secrets go deep, and nothing is ever
quite as simple as it seems-where every thread runs at seemingly
loose ends to a knot of deception and death. John Borden, an
amiable misfit known to most of the locals as "Chilly Willy," is
missing. He left on foot for his night job at the hospital, but
never arrived. Town marshal, Cecil Hardwick, is on his way out of
town to a convention at the very moment former FBI agent, Chuck
Holden, arrives unannounced in Ryland's newspaper office with the
information that an assassin, code name "Punisher," is likely
living there in Oakalla. Holden has been after him for years, and
now in retirement has made it his mission to bring him to justice.
Ryland's search for John Borden first takes him to Robert
Pickering's house, where Borden has been living in the basement for
the past few years and where Pickering is in the last stages of
emphysema. Ryland next visits Jake McKennis, a bear of a man with a
short fuse and a dislike of Borden, and whose son, Ronny, is
Borden's best friend. From there Ryland goes to Adams County
Hospital and has an altercation with Lynn Saylor, a journeyman
nurse with a hulking presence and a suspect past. Then the crank
calls start at work and at home. Then Ronny McKennis runs away from
home to a place that only Ryland, at his peril, knows. Then Lynn
Saylor and Chuck Holden hurriedly leave town, but not before Ryland
learns something about each that will put him in harm's way, and
not before he takes what might be the last ride of his life. In
Home Grown, Ryland's search for truth again leads him and his
housekeeper, Ruth, down converging paths that each would rather not
travel, but are helpless to alter, until they intersect at a place
perilously close to the heart.
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