Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

A true story that reads like a novel. The city of Savannah does not reveal itself all at once. Berendt arrives as an outsider and bit by bit enters a world of shaded squares, old houses, private clubs, gossip, eccentricity and carefully observed social rules. What begins as fascination with a beautiful Southern city eventually becomes a murder mystery and the trials that follow it.

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