YMMV / The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

• Complete Monster: James Harris is a handsome, seductive vampire who uses a real estate scheme to charm communities while molesting and feeding off their children, warping their minds and eventually driving them to painful suicide before leaving the population economically devastated. When forced to stop feeding on a child by heroine Patricia Campbell, Harris covers his tracks by killing her mother-in-law by having her attacked and eaten by rats when she recognizes him, and convinces Patricia's husband she's mentally unwell. Resuming her investigation of him, it becomes apparent Harris has remained alive for four hundred years by feeding, keeping trophies from the children he kills, and later reveals he's been feeding off and grooming Patricia's daughter, and also grooming Patricia's son. Even while dying, Harris goes out a spiteful monster, raping Patricia's best friend and infecting her with a deadly immunodisease, which painfully kills said friend.

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