I’m not sure what John Berendt intended Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil to be. It’s true crime/ non-fiction that focuses more on the supporting cast of characters within Savannah than our murderer or murder victim. Berendt himself is a character, he was actually living part time in Savannah when the murder takes place (what a lucky break!) and had been friendly with Jim Williams, our murderer. He’s a magazine writer and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil comes across as […]
A little slice of Savannah.
I’d been looking forward to reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil for quite some time. Ever since I read Capote’s In Cold Blood, I’ve been really interested in well-written true crime books, particularly ones written in the form of a non-fiction novel, a form that Capote pioneered. What I ended up getting was one but not really the other. This book isn’t really true-crime, although it has elements of that genre, and there is a murder at the heart of the narrative. But that’s not what […]