The Garden Of Evil And The Promised Land Omnibus

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Condition: Very Good

The Garden of Evil (2008)--> (The sixth book in the Nic Costa series)In a hidden studio in an area of Rome where the Vatican liked to keep an eye on the city's prostitutes an art expert from the Louvre is found dead in front of one of the most beautiful paintings that Nic Costa has ever seen - an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece. But before long tragedy will strike Nic far closer to home. The main suspect's identity is known but he remains untouchable protected in his grand palazzo by a fleet of lawyers and a sinister cult known as the Ekstasists. If Costa and his team can crack the reasons for the cult's existence he may well stand a chance of nailing his wife's killer. But the mystery will take him right back to Caravaggio himself and the reasons he had to flee Rome all those centuries before...The Promised Land (2007)--> Ex-cop Bierce has been in prison for over twenty years following his conviction for the murders of his wife and son. He has no memory of the tragedy and has never been able to say with certainty that he didn't do it - except he cannot imagine why on earth he would have killed his beloved family. Unexpectedly released moments before his execution he teams up with the beautiful feisty half-Chinese Alice Loong who is seeking answers to her own troubled past and the death of her mother on that same day in 1983. Alice guides Bierce through the strange new world of the twenty-first century but what secrets is she hiding? Pursued by mysterious enemies who are convinced that Bierce knows more than he is telling about his wife's death the pair embark on a dangerous race against time to uncover the real truth about the events of that fateful day.