Shirley J. Adult Fiction Southern Hospitality, True Crime Novels, Serial Murderer
The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires: A Novel by Grady Hendrix 424 pages
A group of southern belles with ho hum lives get together to start a bookclub where they read true crime novels about the Manson Family, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, you get the idea. This is their adult time as opposed to their lives as wives, mothers and close to Stepford Wife lives, cooking, cleaning and making cocktails while always being impeccably dressed with coiffed hair, nails and perfect make-up. Patricia who is married to a doctor wishes aloud that something exciting like one of the novels they read would happen in their gated Charleston community. Until it does. Serial murders, child abductions, molestations and mutilations start occurring in the black community with little police response nor hope of catching and prosecuting the perpetrator. Parents begin moving out or shipping their children to relatives in other towns to keep their children safe. Then Patricia gets attacked by an elderly neighbor, later this neighbor is attended to by her great-nephew. The great nephew tries to ingratiate himself into the community, he looks like Brad Pitt but looks can be deceiving. Things just don't feel right, then stalkers are seen lurking on folk's roofs, or around their properties late at night. Then, all hell breaks loose. A definite page turner! It is pretty disturbing in parts so I recommend this one to mature teens maybe even adults on up.
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