The Devil's Garden

By Richard Montanari (Random House, RRP $38.99)

 

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Michael Roman has a good life. His career and home-life couldn't really be any better. But things can't always be perfect.

In fact, sometimes a complete psycho has to come and ruin everything.

The Devil's Garden was an amazing read. Richard Montanari has a great writing style that is very poetic and seamlessly rolls along at a perfect pace.

The lead character of Michael Roman was a very likeable hero, with his idyllic life, yet his murky past makes you feel he deserves all the happiness he has. It also makes you really want him to overcome the obstacles that lie ahead for him because he has had such a rough time.

The villain gives the reader an eye-opening insight into the mind of a serial killer and plain old psycho. If he wasn't so plainly insane, you could almost understand where he was coming from. But no, from the outset of the story you kind of want him dead.

It's not hard to see why Montanari is a best-selling author.

With such an intriguing story of family, secrets and murder, it's hard to not get hooked in.

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