After Midnight In Savannah

Savannah, Georgia . . . a city of beauty, a city of history, a city of secrets. A few minutes from the fabled Historic District, Reverend Alva Martin was murdered in her home. Her only child, Jim, was convicted of her murder. The police and, later, a jury, found it to be an open-and-shut case of crack cocaine driving a man to the point that he would kill his own mother to get money to buy his drugs. But there is far more to the story of the relationship between Jim and Alva Martin. Long before Jim met crack cocaine, his father predicted that mother and son would reach a point at which "one of them is going to kill the other." This book is more than just the story of the murder and the trial. It explores the relationship between the smothering Nazarene minister mother and her rebellious homosexual son, who began lurking in public restrooms at the age of seven. Today, after serving more than a decade in prison, Jim Martin still claims that he did not kill his mother, that the killer was his female-impersonating crack cocaine supplier, one of the main witnesses at his trial.