Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip.
This predictable pattern is upended when Patricia meets James Harris, a handsome stranger who moves into the neighborhood to take care of his elderly aunt and ends up joining the book club. James is sensitive and well-read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in twenty years. But there’s something off about him. He doesn’t have a bank account, he doesn’t like going out during the day, and Patricia’s mother-in-law insists that she knew him when she was a girl—an impossibility.
When local children go missing, Patricia and the book club members start to suspect James is more of a Bundy than a Beatnik—but no one outside of the book club believes them. Have they read too many true crime books, or have they invited a real monster into their homes?
© 2020 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781094136998
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 7 juli 2020
Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip.
This predictable pattern is upended when Patricia meets James Harris, a handsome stranger who moves into the neighborhood to take care of his elderly aunt and ends up joining the book club. James is sensitive and well-read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in twenty years. But there’s something off about him. He doesn’t have a bank account, he doesn’t like going out during the day, and Patricia’s mother-in-law insists that she knew him when she was a girl—an impossibility.
When local children go missing, Patricia and the book club members start to suspect James is more of a Bundy than a Beatnik—but no one outside of the book club believes them. Have they read too many true crime books, or have they invited a real monster into their homes?
© 2020 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781094136998
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 7 juli 2020
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Gember
31 jul 2021
Vond het een fantastisch boek maar helaas zitten er veel problematische onderwerpen in die slecht of niet aan de orde komen. Voorbeelden hiervan: nazi verheerlijking, seksisme, racisme, huiselijk geweld, vreemdgaan en seksueel geweld/verkrachting. Goed horror boek maar veel van bovengenoemde elementen waren niet noodzakelijk en zorgde voor een minder fijne luister ervaring. Verder is het regelmatig duidelijk te merken dat de schrijver een man is. En aangezien de hoofdpersonen vrouwen zijn vond ik dat regelmatig storend.
Lo
28 jul 2023
What a great book. Enjoyed it immensely. It’s a story about vampires and friendships. There is a lot of suspense. I really loved the character of Patricia. The story is gripping and has unexpected turns. Couldn’t put it down and I felt emerged in the story. Best book what I read in a long time. The narrator is also really good which made listening even more fun for me.
Victoria
29 okt 2023
Probably the best of Grady Hendrix. Very gory and great depiction of the misogynistic ways of the old south.
Lianne
8 sep 2023
Interessante premise, af en toe was hij best spannend, maar hij begon langdradig te worden en het plot leek heel langzaam voort te kruipen na een bepaald punt.
Dirkje
1 okt 2021
Thrilling story, i finished it so fast i couldnt stop listening.
Mirjam
28 apr 2023
In een paar dagen uitgeluisterd. Super voorgelezen.
Caroline
12 mei 2022
Loved it! It’s such a unique story. It starts out a bit slow as you get to know all the characters of the women but when it gets going…it REALLY gets going.
S.
18 okt 2023
It’s a slower kind of story, entertaining nonetheless! Very well written, the gaslighting from the men is infuriating to say the least. But in the end the women hold their own!
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