I very much enjoyed Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt which I was surprised to learn is a "true crime classic", written in 1994. The main story is about the alleged murder of a young man, Danny Hansford, by an older man with whom he lived, Jim Williams. The crime takes place in the town of Savannah in Georgia, USA. Savannah is relatively isolated from other cities in the region and had developed an inward-looking culture with little tolerance for "outsiders". The story has many eccentric and colourful characters which provide a picture of the community. The story of the murder and the legal case that follows is so bizarre that it is truly one of those cases where fact is stranger than fiction, and it is told brilliantly. 41/2/5Thursday, October 31, 2013
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
I very much enjoyed Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt which I was surprised to learn is a "true crime classic", written in 1994. The main story is about the alleged murder of a young man, Danny Hansford, by an older man with whom he lived, Jim Williams. The crime takes place in the town of Savannah in Georgia, USA. Savannah is relatively isolated from other cities in the region and had developed an inward-looking culture with little tolerance for "outsiders". The story has many eccentric and colourful characters which provide a picture of the community. The story of the murder and the legal case that follows is so bizarre that it is truly one of those cases where fact is stranger than fiction, and it is told brilliantly. 41/2/5
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