The Garden of Evil

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  Copyright © 2008 by David Hewson

  Title page photograph by Cardone Giovanni

  Part title page photograph by Bert Glibbery

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hewson, David, 1953–

  The garden of evil / David Hewson.

  p. cm.

  1. Costa, Nic (Fictitious character)—Fiction.

  2. Police—Italy—Rome—Fiction. 3. Rome (Italy)—Fiction. 4. Art—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR6058.E96G37 2008

  823’.914—dc22

  2007045762

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