I liked this one. Evil coot Soulis (soul less get it) moves into big mansion and turns out to be a big league vampire. Apparently the undead, just like jigsaw puzzle afficionados and the macrame crowd, have hobbies too. Soulis' hobby is creating more vampires especially a sucessor out of hottie, college-student-by-day, high-class-escort-by-night Maggie.Turns out the presence of religious leaders in a community make it difficult for evil to prevail so he pays Ms Maggie to seduce all the priests, rabbis, ministers, etc, in the town. Turns out none of them resist her advances.
Soulis rips through that town like a hot knife through butter. Trying to figure out what the hell is happening to their quaint little town are two detectives; Holdstedter and Boyd. These two are great characters with witty banter and dedication to their jobs. Their reactions to the events are believable.
The pace kept going right from the start. The minor characters and plot lines were well done. The book wasn't scary at all but a still a great vampire/mystery read. It's also hard to dislike a book where a character uses the phrase "Jesus on a pogo stick." His ending up fried by a bolt of lighting is one of the many nice touches scattered through out the book.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Source of copy: Library
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