Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Ranked #10 in South, Ranked #12 in True Crime — see more rankings.
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.
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 this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work... more
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 this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work... more
Rankings by Category
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is ranked in the following categories:
- #95 in Charisma
- #81 in Cities
- #89 in Criminology
- #20 in Customs
- #66 in Evil
- #96 in Gothic
- #100 in Journalism
- #52 in Murder
- #93 in True Story
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