Midnight in the garden of good and evil - John Berendt

Genteel 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'.

These 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.