Midnight in the garden of good and evil. Berendt D.

In the old Savannah mansion, fingers in the morning of May 2, 1981 thundered - Danny Hansford, a young man with a dubious reputation, was killed. Under suspicion, the owner of the house turns out to be...

This is how the investigation begins, which lasts ten years. It took so much time to find out what happened then-the murder or act of self-defense.

However, the main thing in the novel is not at all a detective component, but the town of Savannah itself with its inhabitants: secular ladies from the card club married women; a recluse, whose bottle with poison is able to kill all the inhabitants of the city; an elderly person who walks a non -existent dog every day; The beauty queen of Lady Shabel, performing in a very extravagant show; The priestess of Voodoo, conducting the ritual at night at the cemetery...

The most interesting thing is that this story and all its characters are not fiction. John Berendt, based on real events, managed to create a novel who won the hearts of millions of readers.