The FrontBy: Patricia Cornwell Series: Winston Garano Series The Front is the second book in the Winston Garano series, from bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962.