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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

On sale

10th November 2011

Price: £9.99

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444738728

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Published for the first time in flipback – the new, portable, stylish format that’s taken Europe by storm.

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands’ suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a ‘walking streak of sex’.

These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed – and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired – in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.

Reviews

<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>
Elegant and wicked . . . Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.
Edmund White
The best non-fiction novel since IN COLD BLOOD and a lot more entertaining
Robert Winder, <i>Independent</i>
Enthralling
Mark Lawson, <i>Independent on Sunday</i>
Berendt - and the reader - are in travel-writer heaven . . . This is a book which leaves you amused, spooked and introduced to a new piece of America
Moira Shearer, <i>Daily Telegraph</i>
Perfect storytelling - wildly funny, occasionally alarming and utterly enthralling