Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Audiobook (Free)

Photos rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty,morning hours hours of Might 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt’s sharply noticed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads such as a thoroughly engrossing novel, yet it really is a function of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely about Midnight in the Garden of Great and Evil amusing first-person account of life with this isolated remnant from the Old South using the unstable twists and becomes of a landmark murder case.

It really is a spellbinding tale peopled with a gallery of remarkable people: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Membership; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a container of poison so effective it could eliminate every man, female, and kid in Savannah; the ageing and profane Southern belle who is the ‘soul of pampered self-absorption’; the uproariously funny black move queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con musician; young blacks dancing the minuet in the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who functions her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and additional Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive inside a city where everyone understands everyone else.

Midnight in your garden of Good and Evil is normally a sublime and seductive reading encounter. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously interesting portrait of the most beguiling Southern town has become a modern classic.