Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

This is a true story that reads like a murder mystery. The story is set in Savannah, Georgia in the 1980's and is populated with an eccentric bunch of characters including a social climbing housing developer, an inept DA, a haughty antiques dealer, a woman who practices voodoo, a black drag queen, and a young male prostitute who just wants a big headstone when he dies. The New York Times Book Review said this book was "elegant and wicked" and I utterly agree. I loved it!