Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction novel by John Berendt. The book, Berendt’s first, was published on January 10, 1994,[1] and follows the story of Jim Williams, an antiques dealer on trial for the killing of Danny Hansford. Subtitled: ‘A Savannah Story’, with an initial printing of 25,000 copies,[2] the book became a New York Times Best-Seller for 216 weeks following its debut and remains one of the longest-standing New York Times Best-Sellers.[3]