The savage garden
By: Mark Mills
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780425221297
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; Gardens; Scholars; British; Fiction
Description: "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."
Notes: Includes a reader's guide.