Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'.

These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed - and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired - in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.

• ISBN10: 0340992859
• ISBN13: 9780340992852
• Publish Date: 3 September 2009 (first published 1 January 1994)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Imprint: Sceptre
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[JumpingShelves]

The transition from the first chapter to the second chapter confused me a bit. The timing of it didn't work out. And the first part of it is all about the towns people. So it's slow but by the second part it picks up. The ending isn't anything great but it wraps up the story.

[inlibrisveritas]

I borrowed this from a friend who borrowed it from the library,lol. I loved this book, it was rich and fulfilling. I really enjoyed reading about Savannah. It was such a good story and even though it's a little odd, it's addictive.