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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

Start date: January 1, 2014

Finish date: January 31, 2014

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Aug 12, 2024 Ann rated it really liked it

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After Radium Girls, I was wary of approaching true crime non-fiction but that title though, plus I had true crime as a prompt. I listened to the abridged version read by Anthony Heald and it was nice. Once I stopped thinking of the story as a mystery and just settled down to be entertained by the colorful cast of characters and the strong sense of place, I enjoyed it.

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Jul 09, 2017 Colleen Chi-Girl rated it really liked it

Shelves: bios-memoirs, us-no-amer, lgbtqia

Beautiful true crime story about a murder case told by a NY journalist set in beautiful Savannah, Georgia. He lived there for 8 years and it really reads like an exciting novel. All of the things you might think about the South are covered.....the Old South, the Southern belle, racial tension, antiques, humidity :), stereotypes, and voodoo. Read it.

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Mar 01, 2015 Jen rated it really liked it

Shelves: popular-nonfiction, southern-american-lit

This book had a grand and entertaining cast of characters as well as centering on a murder mystery. It opens a world of a Savannah that in many ways was holding on to the old South. It also does a great job of encapsulating life in the 1980s. A really enjoyable book that opened up an unfamiliar world.

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