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	Score	Author	Title	Year	Genre	Review
	7	John Berendt	*Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil*	1994	True Crime	This book was not what I was expecting, reading more like a novel than a historical document, which made it quite easy to get through, like a breeze through the Spanish moss. It was a nice touch by Berendt to tell the story of Jim Williams' murder of Danny Hansford through the lens of all the characters he came across during his time in Savannah, painting a fuller picture of the social and political climate (which are, unsurprisingly, inextricably linked) rather than simply telling a true crime murder story. This, for me, made it more of an entertaining read rather than an informative one. Reviewed on Monday, January 8th, 2024, 2:12pm.	John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - True Crime - 1994 - This book was not what I was expecting, reading more like a novel than a historical document, which made it quite easy to get through, like a breeze through the Spanish moss. It was a nice touch by Berendt to tell the story of Jim Williams' murder of Danny Hansford through the lens of all the characters he came across during his time in Savannah, painting a fuller picture of the social and political climate (which are, unsurprisingly, inextricably linked) rather than simply telling a true crime murder story. This, for me, made it more of an entertaining read rather than an informative one.

Score

Author

Title

Year

Genre

Review

John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

1994

True Crime

This book was not what I was expecting, reading more like a novel than a historical document, which made it quite easy to get through, like a breeze through the Spanish moss. It was a nice touch by Berendt to tell the story of Jim Williams' murder of Danny Hansford through the lens of all the characters he came across during his time in Savannah, painting a fuller picture of the social and political climate (which are, unsurprisingly, inextricably linked) rather than simply telling a true crime murder story. This, for me, made it more of an entertaining read rather than an informative one.

Reviewed on Monday, January 8th, 2024, 2:12pm.

John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - True Crime - 1994 - This book was not what I was expecting, reading more like a novel than a historical document, which made it quite easy to get through, like a breeze through the Spanish moss. It was a nice touch by Berendt to tell the story of Jim Williams' murder of Danny Hansford through the lens of all the characters he came across during his time in Savannah, painting a fuller picture of the social and political climate (which are, unsurprisingly, inextricably linked) rather than simply telling a true crime murder story. This, for me, made it more of an entertaining read rather than an informative one.

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