{"id":344,"date":"2008-06-03T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=344"},"modified":"2008-05-19T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T19:31:37","slug":"the-savage-garden-by-mark-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-savage-garden-by-mark-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"The Savage Garden by Mark Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/savage-garden.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-347 alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"savage-garden\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/savage-garden.jpg?resize=185%2C276&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Savage Garden\" \/><\/a>Linked murders 400 years apart create the suspense and intrigue in this literate novel of family secrets, loyalty, and betrayal. Adam Strickland goes to Tuscany to write about a famous memorial garden, but the garden hides secrets &#8211; was Flora Docci actually murdered and why? As Adam delves into the mysteries of the garden he is also drawn into a more recent wartime murder involving the son of the matriarch of the villa, putting his own life in danger.<\/p>\n<p>If you liked <em>The DaVinci Code<\/em> with it&#8217;s mysteries wrapped in ancient texts, or are intrigued by twists and turns of wartime loyalties, you&#8217;ll love <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=mark%20mills&amp;srchfield1=AU^AUTHOR^AUTHORS^Author%20Processing^author&amp;searchoper1=AND&amp;library=DPLG&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">The Savage Garden.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linked murders 400 years apart create the suspense and intrigue in this literate novel of family secrets, loyalty, and betrayal. Adam Strickland goes to Tuscany to write about a famous memorial garden, but the garden hides secrets &#8211; was Flora Docci actually murdered and why? As Adam delves into the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-savage-garden-by-mark-mills\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}