Adam Strickland is a young scholar from Cambridge sent to the house Villa Docci in Tuscany where he is to write a monograph about its famous memorial garden. Unbeknownst to Adam he is being used by one of the members of the Docci family and is really sent to Villa Docci to uncover two murders and reveal the families cursed past.
The garden is a mysterious world hiding a four hundred year old family secret. Through out the garden are statues and inscriptions. Through his research, Adam is abl... (show more)

Adam Strickland is a young scholar from Cambridge sent to the house Villa Docci in Tuscany where he is to write a monograph about its famous memorial garden. Unbeknownst to Adam he is being used by one of the members of the Docci family and is really sent to Villa Docci to uncover two murders and reveal the families cursed past.
The garden is a mysterious world hiding a four hundred year old family secret. Through out the garden are statues and inscriptions. Through his research, Adam is able to connect the garden with what really happened hundreds of years ago, and flush out a more recent murderer.
This book is full of multiple mysteries, family intrigues, classic mythology, and Renaissance art.
The map of the garden in the front of the book is not worth the paper it is printed on, so use the internet to look up the renaissance art and the classic mythology referenced in this book.
A quick read, it is not the best murder mystery I have read but it is entertaining. (show less)