Savage Garden is a finalist for the Southern California Booksellers Award for "Best Mystery of 2005." Denise is in heady company. The finalists in the SCBA Mystery Category for 2005 are: Savage Garden by Denise Hamilton, Scribner's; Bloodlines by Jan Burke, Simon & Schuster; California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker, William Morrow; Dating Is Murder by Harley Jane Kozak, Doubleday; and Not a Girl Detective: A Cece Caruso Mystery by Susan Kandel, William Morrow. For more info, go to www.scbabooks.org. HOME