The Kingdoms of Savannah

ΓÇ£Around these parts,the publication of a new George Dawes Green novel is an event. … Green leans all the way into Southern Gothicbut the main grotesquerie is the cityΓÇÖs historybuilt on the backs of enslaved people. His prose is languideven luxuriousbut at critical moments of suspensehe pares it back to ramp up the terror.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöNew York Times Book Review Savannah may appear to be ΓÇ£some town out of a fableΓÇ¥ with its vine flowersturreted mansionsand ghost tours that romanticize the cityΓÇÖs history. But look deeper and youΓÇÖll uncover secretspast and presentthat tell a more sinister tale. ItΓÇÖs the story at the heart of George Dawes GreenΓÇÖs chilling new novelThe Kingdoms of Savannah. It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night as some locals gather at Bo PeepΓÇÖsone of the townΓÇÖs favorite watering holes. Within an hourhowevera man will be murdered and his companion will be ΓÇ£disappeared.ΓÇ¥ An unlikely detectiveMorgana Musgrovedoyenne of Savannah societyis called upon to unravel the mystery of these crimes. Morgana is an imperiousdemandingand conniving womanwhose four grown children are weary of her schemes. But one by one she inveigles them into helping with her investigationand soon the family uncovers some terrifying truthsΓÇötruths that will rock SavannahΓÇÖs power structure to its core. Moving from the homeless encampments that ring the city to the stately homes of SavannahΓÇÖs eliteGreenΓÇÖs novel brilliantly depicts the underbelly of a city with a dark history and the strangely mesmerizing dysfunction of a complex family.