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Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout the city of Savannah, Georgia's moss-hung oaks and shaded squares . . .
John Berendt's impressive work of narrative nonfiction reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, making Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil a sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city has become a modern classic.