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Title: Midnight
in the garden of good & evil
Author: John Berendt
Genre: nonfiction/thriller
Rating: 
If you are not a big fan of nonfiction - like me - don't be alarmed by
the genre description. It reads like fiction: thriller, drama, wit,
you'll get all and at very high quality at that. You will read like there is
no tomorrow. It is a great book!
A New York
journalist is staying in Savannah, when one of the many colorful people of the
town is charged with murder. At first we get some chapters, each concentrating
on a colorful resident. I thought, especially with the chapter about Chablis,
that they were nice to read, but stood outside the real story and didn't
contribute to it, but actually that isn't really necessary. They just add up to
a great couple of years in which the journalist lives in "the South".
Then follow the chapters with a full report of the trial, the ending and of all
the people involved, which are most of the people of the town one way or
another.
Every time when
reading I had to remind myself I was reading nonfiction, that the people really
exist and that the things happening have actually happened in real life. Some
things I considered too weird to be true, but hey, the world is a strange place,
especially a remarkable town called Savannah.
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