The Garden of Evil by David Hewson. Crime fiction 9/10
I really like the Rome settings of Hewson’s crime fiction novels, so atmospheric and different. His characters are not bad, though his story lines are somewhat stretched at time, and this one is too, but nonetheless a good, exciting read. The Garden of Evil is well put together, lots of suspense, no fancy narrative splitting stuff and not a bad plot. A woman art expert is found dead
I really like the Rome settings of Hewson’s crime fiction novels, so atmospheric and different. His characters are not bad, though his story lines are somewhat stretched at time, and this one is too, but nonetheless a good, exciting read. The Garden of Evil is well put together, lots of suspense, no fancy narrative splitting stuff and not a bad plot. A woman art expert is found dead in front of an undiscovered Carrivaggio masterpiece, that obviously had some significance. Nic Costa’s partner is shot and he is hardly capable of being involved – but the man who killed her is involved in some way with this other murder. Falcone asks his “ward” a sister in a convent to help them track down the Carrivaggio provenance, and she becomes embroiled, along with Costa in a grim tussle with the strange cult the Ekstasists – who they know and can identify, but cannot touch, because they are protected by their lawyers. |