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Credits

Writer: Mark Mills; Genres: Fiction, Mystery; Publisher: Putnam

Art historian Adam Strickland heads to Italy to crack codes embedded in a Renaissance-era garden, but is distracted by wine, women, and a World War II mystery in Mark Mills’ The Savage Garden.

Smarty-pants line
''No one disputed that Zephyrus and Chloris figured in Botticelli's Primavera but until now scholars had always read the figure standing to the left...''

The Lowdown
A smashing start gives way to a flabby middle and silly finish. B-


 

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