The Savage Garden | Mark Mills

The Savage Garden | Mark Mills | A Weekend in Tuscany

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The Savage Garden

	The Savage Garden Mark Mills Berkley Trade, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 34 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting is in Tuscany, assigned to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden?a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical inscriptions. As his research deepens, Adam comes to suspect that buried in the garden?s strange iconography is the key to uncovering a long-ago murder. But the ancient house holds its own secrets as well. And as Adam delves into his subject, he begins to suspect that he is being used to discover the true meaning of the villa?s murderous past.

A Great Read

This was a very well written and interesting book.....a bit "heavier" than a light summer read, but difficult to put down.

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A Weekend in Tuscany

This is not a "cozy". But the mysteries are intriguing...and you get to spend 2 weeks in Tuscany. See, taste, smell the atmosphere...his prose leaves you no choice. A very satisfying read!

Wonderful!!

This is a classic -- beautifully written, well thought out characters, a unique story. Mark Mills' other book, Amagansett, is even better. I can't wait for his next one!

Written as a Screenplay?

I liked this book. It was a page turner, the author wove the two storylines together well, so you didn't feel clunky cutting back and forward in time, and the settings were well drawn. My major problem was that I never felt I was in 1958. That was merely a plot contrivance to use World War 2 in the story. Never mind, a light easy mystery read.

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