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 (Lydbok): 9781094136998
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 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 (Lydbok): 9781094136998
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 7. juli 2020
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natalie<3
21. juli 2021
very scary and funny at the same time🙀😹
Helene
17. apr. 2023
Skummel og ekkel til tider, og skikkelig page turner
Oda
26. mai 2023
Spennende, morsom og litt klein bok. Naive sørstats hustruer som må ta vare på sine familier samtidig som de må bekjempe en inntrenger i deres samfunn.
Frøya
6. feb. 2022
Denne var grusom. Premisset virket morsomt, men historien utviklet seg til å bli mye mørkere og eklere enn jeg hadde forutsett. Inneholder flere scener med voldtekter og overgrep mot barn.
Johannes
23. okt. 2022
Spennende, skummel, ekkel - og til tider morsom.
Elina
11. okt. 2023
Den tog sig upp mot slutet, men var nära att ge upp någonstans i mitten. Lite bättre personbeskrivningar hade bidragit till en bättre läsupplevelse. Inläsaren var väldigt bra!
Hedvig
15. juni 2021
Jeg likte konseptet, men plottet tar aaaaltfor lang tid og er veldig forutsigbart. Det skjer ikke noe dramatisk før de siste to timene i boka, noe som sier litt når jeg forventa en Buffy the Vampire Slayer men med husmødre i stedet for tenåringer. Mye potensial, elendig utførelse.
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