The Vampire Book Club: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Cozy Mystery

Written by Nancy Warren

Narrated by Hollis McCarthy

Quinn Callahan is having a doozy of a midlife crisis.

She's stuck in a dead end job, going nowhere, but she's been fine with it. She's 45 and divorced. Her husband left her for her best friend—so cliche! But it was all good—until Quinn, a practicing witch, broke a major rule, and found her boring existence turned upside down. Suddenly, she finds herself thousands miles away from the bustling metropolis of Seattle and plunked down in the sleepy little hamlet of Ballydehag, Ireland, and proprietress of a charming little bookshop. Surely, there's no chance for a middle aged witch to get into any trouble here....right? Uh......

"A rollicking good read, with a delightful cast of characters, and some special guest appearances from The Vampire Knitting Club. Nancy Warren delivers a delightful new mystery series."

You will fall in love with this series about second chances, magical mayhem, and book club unlike any other. From the USA Today Bestselling author of the Vampire Knitting Club series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ambleside Publishing
• Release date: Jul 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664909458

Nancy Warren

USA TODAY bestselling author Nancy Warren lives in the Pacific Northwest where her hobbies include skiing, hiking and snow shoeing. She's an author of more than thirty novels and novellas for Harlequin and has won numerous awards. Visit her website at www.nancywarren.net.

Reviews for The Vampire Book Club

[Leiza Miller · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was a little rocky in the beginning but it was a good story!

[Teri Wise · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very enjoyable. The story was interesting, the main character engaging and relatable.
The narration was excellent.

[Tacitus Lector · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Very disappointing. Much of the writing felt like lazy copy/paste from Warren's earlier Knitting Club series. Even the heroine, despite being older and having a much different background from the Knitter's Club heroine, had the same irritating internal leaps to conclusions and suspicions built on the most ridiculously flimsy premises. Also, the constant convenient lapses into stupidity as a plot device just make the the heroine out to be an idiot when it makes no sense, but suddenly a genius when it's useful.

Now, the murder. I'm sorry to say, but...yawn. The victim is such a morally bankrupt bastard that I couldn't drum up any actual desire for the crime to be solved, let alone root for the protagonist. And as if that weren't bad enough, the killer ends up being the most sympathetic personal that the victim harmed. Yeah, that feels great.

The heroine doesn't even "solve" the murder. She humiliates a bunch of people, unnecessarily, bouncing from suspect to suspect as each doesn't pan out, until finally the killer just---jfc---confesses everything when the evidence was barely even circumstantial. How convenient. And lazy.

I do wish I could find a cozy mystery series that wasn't insulting to readers' intelligence. It's like they write these things on the premise that the readers are imbeciles.