Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Part Two

In the old manor house in Savannah, on a foggy morning of May 2, 1981, gunshots rang out—Danny Hensford was killed, a young man with a dubious reputation. The owner of the house comes under suspicion… This is how an investigation begins that lasted ten years. It took exactly that long to find out what had happened back then—murder or an act of self-defense. But the most important thing in the novel isn’t the detective part; it’s the town itself—Savannah—with all its residents: social ladies from the Card Club for Married Women; a recluse whose poison bottle could kill everyone in the town; an elderly man who walks every day an imaginary dog; the beauty queen Lady Chablis performing in a very extravagant show; a voodoo priestess conducting a ritual at night in the cemetery… What’s most interesting is that this story and all its characters are not fiction. John Berendt, based on real events, managed to create a novel that won the hearts of millions of readers.