This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles racial
disparities and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good. Zakiya Dalila
Harris author of The Other Black GirlNow in paperback Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this
New York Times best-selling horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a
mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town.Bonus features: Reading group guide for book
clubs Hand-drawn map of Mt. Pleasant Annotated true-crime reading list by Grady Hendrix And
more! Patricia Campbell s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic her teenage
kids have their own lives her senile mother-in-law needs constant care and she s always a
step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club a
close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they
re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families. One evening
after book club Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor bringing the neighbor's
handsome nephew James Harris into her life. James is well traveled and well read and he
makes Patricia feel things she hasn t felt in years. But when children on the other side of
town go missing their deaths written off by local police Patricia has reason to believe James
Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different
kind and Patricia has already invited him in. Little by little James will insinuate himself
into Patricia s life and try to take everything she took for granted including the book club
but she won t surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone
wrong.
