The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind-and Patricia has already invited him in. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in years. One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on her endless to-do list. More about The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. A grim and disturbing reflection on the commodification of suffering and the dangerous power of art, The Invention of Sound is Chuck Palahniuk at the peak of his literary powers - his most suspenseful, most daring, and most genre-defying work yet. Using the same secret techniques as her father before her, she's become an industry-leading expert in the sound of violence and horror, creating screams so bone-chilling, they may as well be real.Soon Foster and Ives find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood's glamorous façade. Meanwhile, Mitzi Ives has carved out a space among the Foley artists creating the immersive sounds giving Hollywood films their authenticity. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade, and he may finally be on the verge of discovering the awful truth. More about The Invention of Sound: Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago.
We hope you’ll join us for a suspenseful evening! Chuck will be joined in conversation by horror aficionado Grady Hendrix who’s newest book is The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires - Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this supernatural thriller set in South Carolina in the '90s, about a women's book club that must that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town who turns out to be a real monster. Books in Common NW can’t wait to welcome Chuck Palahniuk to share his newest book The Invention of Sound, in which a father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold.
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