Good Neighbors: "The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires" by Grady Hendrix

This one grabbed me right from the first few sentences. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix is the perfect book to read this time of year or any time, because it's that good and that original!
 Beginning in 1988, Patricia Campbell is a good Southern housewife and mother. She and her equally good housewife friends live in a safe, nobody locks their doors suburban community of Charleston, South Carolina, and belong to a proper book club, where it turns out nobody actually read the classics the host imposed on them. Leaving the final meeting, one of the ladies suggests they read “real” books, the kind that everyone really wants to read, true crime! Everyone enthusiastically takes part, and after months of reading, they’re pretty much experts on the details of what to look for if you were ever in a similar situation to the victims. Still, they feel pretty secure, as they look after the homes and children while their husbands are out earning a living. Or are they as safe as they believe? One night, something shocking happens to Patricia! This Is when the story begins to take some unexpected twists and turns as the characters wake up to the fact that not all is pleasant in Mt. Pleasant.

I loved the author’s style of writing. And this is a fun read with some real scary surprises, I mean, given the title, I expected something, but not the author’s take on “vampires”. It also has aspects of feminism, as these women have to worry about, or answer to their husbands about the every day decisions they make. I highly recommend this one.