Mark Mills
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Mark Mills
In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island’s windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montaukett Indians from the land. But for Conrad Labarde, a second-generation Basque immigrant recently returned from the Second World War, and his fellow fisherman Rollo Kemp, this stability is shattered when a beautiful New York socialite turns up dead in their nets.
On the face of it, her death was…
Mark Mills
Adam Banting, a 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 a famous garden dedicated to the memory of Signor Docci’s dead wife. During his three-week sojourn at the villa, Adam comes to suspect that the long-dead Signor Docci most likely killed his wife and filled her memorial garden with pointers as to both the method and the motive of his crime.
As the mystery of the garden unfolds, Adam finds clues to yet another possible murder, this one much more recent. Delving into his subject, Adam begins to suspect that his summer project might be a setup. Is he really just the naíve student, stumbling upon clues, or is Signora Docci using him to discover for herself the true meaning of the villa’s murderous past?
