Adam Strickland, a somewhat aimless young scholar at Cambridge University, is called to his professor s office one afternoon and assigned a special summer project: to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden in Tuscany. Dedicated to the memory of a fifteenth-century nobleman s young wife, the garden is a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical inscriptions. But Adam comes to suspect that something sinister lies buried in the garden s strange iconography. What if Lord Docci s wife was murdered, and her memorial garden is filled with pointers to both the method and the motive of the crime? As the odd history unfolds, Adam finds himself drawn into a parallel intrigue. Through his evolving relationship with the lady of the house - the ailing, seventy-something Signora Docci - he hears stories of yet another violent death in the family, this one...
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Mellan en trea och en fyra, vissa delar var helt fantastiska, men ibland tappade jag bort mig bland intrigerna mellan personerna. Det var många som hade liknande "röst".
