Savannah, Georgia - the city that asks you what you’d like to drink - is filled with wild characters and no reason to change. This is all according to the Yankee journalist who is documenting his stay in town in the 1980s. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) is true story. It says a lot when the eccentricities of the characters, including an antique seller who throws the best Christmas parties, an inventor rumored to have a poison that can wipe out the entire town, a widowed socialite who loves the color green, and a scene-stealing drag queen, to name a few, are more interesting than the main plot (the murder) itself. Did the antique seller murder his much younger assistant who also happens to be a very good male prostitute? Does it matter?
Thank you to Josh Hill for recommending this book to me after watching Tiger King!