This month’s book is such a wild, mysterious ride!

Join us in reading The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Vampire Slaying by Grady Hendrix.

Patricia Campbell is a Southern woman, a devoted mother, and a dutiful wife. She lives a small life in a small town and an even smaller marriage. Her mother-in-law, Miss Mary, has moved into the den, taken to saying strange things, even appearing once in front of Patricia’s entire book club in the nude. Her teenage daughter is uninterested, her husband is always ‘working late’, and Patricia has one thing in her life that allows her to be a little less small: her book club. That is, until James Harris moves into the neighborhood and Patricia becomes a little more prone to scandal and intrigue.

Welcome to the height of Satanic Panic, but from a mother’s perspective. This is a layered, detailed, twisting little story about a book club made of respectable women who have a deep fascination with horror, unsolved crimes, and serial killers. They gather around books they would never tell their husbands about, and their lives become so much more like family than friends. They swap parenting advice, navigate gossip and strange experiences, and show up for each other when they’re overwhelmed. But all along the way, Patricia is carrying a horrifyingly discovered secret. James Harris, the mysterious new neighbor, is a vampire.

There are no Twilight-esque vamps here. Harris is charming and strategic. And he’s clearly perfected the long con, luring Patricia into his web of lies, manipulation, and control. But whirling around her life are stories of children going missing, her mother-in-law’s insistence that she knew Harris when she was a little girl, her husband’s obvious affairs, and a seemingly perfect life crumbling around her.

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Happy reading, mamas!