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Two murders separated by centuries make up the heart of this excellent literary mystery. Set in the beautiful Tuscan countryside during the summer of 1958, Mills's novel tells the story of Adam Strickland, an art history major researching the 16th-century garden on the grounds of the Villa Docci. As Strickland studies the intricate sculptures and inscriptions in the garden, he deciphers a series of clues that hint at a murder committed more than 400 years ago. He also discovers evidence of another murder, this one only 14 years in the past. Unraveling the former mystery will find him a place in academic history, but solving the latter will place his life in danger. Stuart brings just the right touch to his reading of this intelligently written story. With an excellent use of his vocal talents, he moves easily from one character to another, never overplaying the accents or gender. His descriptive narration uses Mills's prose to sweep the listener into a classic world of intrigue and suspense. Fans of P.D. James and the like will enjoy.
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In 1958, while studying in the Tuscan Renaissance garden of the enigmatic Signora Francesca Docci, graduate student Adam Strickland uncovers two murders committed four hundred years apart, the sudden death of 25-year-old Flora Docci in the sixteenth century and the death of Signora Docci's son, Emilio, during WWII. Ian Stuart's voice is intriguing as the garden's 70-year-old owner, Francesca; her charm and breeding are evident in his every syllable. As the secrets of the garden and the Docci family unfold, Stuart's Adam evolves from naïf to survivor. Layers within layers, puzzles wrapped around enigmas, elegant writing in lush, luxurious abundance, and Ian Stuart's exceptional performance make Mills's second novel a must-listen for those who like their mysteries enveloped in literary panache. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent, Oct. 11 2007
This review is from: Savage Garden (Hardcover)
About three years ago, British author Mark Mills debuted with "Amagansett", a critically acclaimed murder mystery set in post-World War II Long Island, notable in the off-the-beaten track setting and period and in Mill's slick and sophisticated prose. But where "Amagansett" meandered sometimes aimlessly across Hampton's dunes, Mills' second effort, "The Savage Garden", is as lively and raucous a page-turner as the Tuscan hills where his story takes place.

Adam Strickland is a young Cambridge student in the decade or so following World War II; a brilliant but borderline slacker. For his thesis, his professor suggests travel to Italy to research the Renaissance gardens of the Villa Docci. Drawn more to the promised pleasures of Tuscany's seductive hills than the academic allure of a rather pedestrian Florentine garden, Adam gladly accepts the challenge. Traveling from Florence to the surrounding hillsides, Adam meets the aging and elegant matriarch Signora Docci and begins his scholarly research on the villa's garden, supposedly a memorial to "Flora" - the wife of it's 15th century owner. But it is soon apparent that there is more to the garden - and to the families who've occupied the villa for centuries - than Renaissance architecture and medieval history. Intrigue and mystery seem to lurk behind every statue and behind the villa's locked doors, revealing sinister parallel events spanning the hundreds of years between Flora's untimely death and the murder of Signora Docci's son by the Nazi's who occupied the villa during the WWII.

Simply put, "The Savage Garden" has all the elements making a great novel. The premise is clever, intelligent, and understated, delivered by a cast of well-drawn and likable characters who are cast in credible situations while reacting believably. The story line throws in enough history and culture to keep it interesting, while not bogging down in unnecessary historical minutia. But most of all, "The Savage Garden" is at its core a good old fashioned Gothic mystery that will bring back memories of "The DaVinci Code" and Matthew Pearl's "The Dante Club", while deftly sidestepping the "Hollywood" of the former and tedium of the latter. Make no mistake about it - Mark Mills is a writer with serious chops - a writer that in two outings has shown depth and versatility and an uncanny ability to educate while entertaining. I'm looking forward to number three, but hoping the wait is less than three years. Another title that I just can't help talking about is 'Across the High Lonesome' by James McNay Brumfield; I picked up this book when I saw that Larry McMurtry, the author of my all time favorite book 'Lonesome Dove,' gave it high marks.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 "What they did in a moment, we live with forever.", Jui 30 2007
Par Michael Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Savage Garden (Hardcover)
Weaving Greek sculpture, renaissance literature, and even the horrors of the Second World War, Mark Mills' seductive tale centers on the strange doings of a mysterious Villa high in the hills of Tuscany. In search of a subject for his thesis, Cambridge student Adam Strickland is given a unique opportunity to spend the summer in Tuscany, ostensibly to study a 16th-century memorial garden belonging to the Docci family.

Naturally curious, Adam jumps at the opportunity, confident that wiling away a lazy summer in Italy will not only revitalize his soul, but also help him get over the effects of unceremoniously being dumped by his ex-girlfriend. Adam, however, isn't quite prepared for what he finds when he arrives at the Docci Villa. The garden surrounding the villa is in fact a complex warren of groves and grottoes and was conceived and laid out by a grieving husband to the memory of his dead wife.

Fed by a spring that runs just below the Villa Docci, this plunging patch of woodland is modeled on Roman gardens of the period, with meandering pathways, and rills, with inscriptions and neoclassical structures and statues, along with a temple and a pool, and even a nine-tiered amphitheatre crowned by a statue of a beautiful woman named "Fiore." It's almost as though the garden is representing the coming together of art and nature to create a whole new entity.

Adam also admires the Villa Docci itself, there's an air of austerity and artless candor about the building, and a robust, almost fortress like quality. In almost no time at all, Adam falls under Villa Docci's spell; and he can't actually say why the garden affects him so much, all he can point to is a vague sensation of having been momentarily transported somewhere else, a parallel world, unquestionably beautiful, but also strangely disquieting.

But Adam can't quite escape the feeling that there is something not quite right about this place. As the restless whispers echo at the back of his mind, a local man by the name of Fausto and also Signora Fanelli, the beautiful and seductive manager of the local pensione warn him of the dangers of getting to close to the Villa telling him to "be careful up at there at the Villa Docci, it's a bad place, and people have a tendency to die there."

Meanwhile, the aging Signora Docci lies alone in her bedroom at Villa Docci, instructing Adam that's he's free to come and go and his leisure, and is more than welcome to work out of the study if he wants to, and of course the library is also at his disposal. In fact, he is to have free run of the Villa, everything except the top floor, which is totally off-limits.

The garden steadily begins to transport Adam with its unsettling pull that somehow reeks of ancient gatherings and happenings, and it is here that he meets the lovely Antonella, Signora Docci's granddaughter who beguiles him with her understated beauty and tells him much about the origins of the mysterious garden, created by the devastated Frederico Docci in loving memory of his wife of Flora Bonfadio who was only twenty-five years old when she died in 1548.But why had Flora's husband waited almost thirty years - till the very end of his life - to lay out a garden to her memory? And what is the significance of the triumphal arch on which Flora's name is carved in its Italian form?

Adams questions about the garden however, do little to take the edge off Adam's need to know more about the Docci family's recent history. Apparently, Signora Docci's husband Benedetto had died some years before, and her eldest son Emilio was also dead, killed towards the end of the war by the Germans who had occupied the villa.

Devastated at the death of Emilio, Benedetto closed up the top floor exactly how the Germans had left it, sealing it off and locking it up forever. But Adam continues to wonder why this family chose to live with this painful memory, rather than allowing it to dissipate over the years. And as the purpose of the garden with all of its encryptions set in symbols and metaphors and allegory gradually comes to life, Adam must also contend with a family that has never really recovered from the death of their beloved eldest son.

The literary clues proliferate, the serpentine plot races along, and Adam is confronted with a grim catalogue of intrigues, deceits and unusual deaths that stretch throughout history as though the Villa Docci is intent to attract ill luck to itself. This is the serious business of murder as the web the Docci family spins gradually comes into focus. Throughout the course of the story, Adam seems to experience his own renaissance; and he's also willing to take on the Docci family.

Beautifully delivered with some wonderful descriptions of the Tuscan landscape, Mills has written a fascinating literary thriller that gets right to the heart of one family's search for revenge and redemption. Mike Leonard July 07.
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