By Sandy Amazeen Aug 11, 2008, 3:01 GMT
Scream queen Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott have taken the frequently overtired, under imaginative vampire myth and added a delightfully fresh spin by casting several of the better known old actors as vampyres. What’s more, most of Hollywood is involved in creating a wealth of misleading myths so unsuspecting humans won’t catch on to the reality of vampyres.
Ovsanna Moore, a centuries old vampyre with plenty of experience in the film industry oversees the Hollywood vampyres while maintaining an active production studio. Lately her job has become much more difficult as several big name actors involved with her company die horrible deaths. When Ovsanna learns that all the gruesome deaths are in some way associated with her studio, she realizes this is a targeted attack against her and the Hollywood vampyres. She will have to face Lilith, the mother of the vampyre race if she is to keep her life and place within the clandestine community.
Police detective Peter King is assigned to what is being called the Cinema Slayer and before long, finds himself drawn into a world stranger then anything he could have imagined. Peter has some feelings toward Ovsanna but as evidence mounts against her, finds he must plow ahead with the investigation regardless of his personal life. What he discovers is the stuff of nightmares and will change his life forever if ever he lives that long.
Ovsanna and Peter alternately tell the story with each chapter marked by icons of a vampyre kiss or a smoking gun making it easy to know who is telling the story. This is a thoroughly entertaining, gory detective story with enough action and twists to keep the most jaded reader engaged to the last page. This is a breath of fresh air in a frequently stale genre.
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