{"product_id":"9780340992852","title":"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (by John Berendt)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME CLASSIC 'Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime'New York Times Book ReviewGenteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides.  A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen.  A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight.  A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town.  A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie.  And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed - and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired - in this utterly irresistible book.  At once a  true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously  perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Forceful, clear, gripping, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is the best nonfiction novel since In Cold Blood and a lot more entertaining'Edmund White'All the old passions are on parade through New South Savannah in John Berendt's wickedly funny new book'Richard Russo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68238071857379,"sku":"9780340992852","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9780340992852.jpg?v=1793956162","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.pro\/products\/9780340992852","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}