Midnight in the garden of good and evil

In the ancient mansion of the savannah foggy on the morning of May 2, 1981, shots thundered - Danny Hansford, a young man with a dubious reputation, was killed. Under suspicion is the owner of the house ...
So the investigation begins, lasting 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 with its inhabitants: secular ladies from the card club of 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 in 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