Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson and Joyce Bean

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Lost Souls
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Updated on 11-9-2008.

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Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD; Abridged edition (March 25, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1423315316

ISBN-13: 978-1423315315

Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5 x 1.3 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces ()

From Publishers Weekly
Kristi Bentz, having recovered from her last encounter with a sadistic monster in bestseller Jackson's Absolute Evil, faces an equally terrifying ordeal in this frantic paranormal thriller. Four female students associated with a vampire cult have gone missing at Baton Rouge's All Saints College, where Kristi is pursuing a journalism degree and plans to write about true crime. Kristi by chance rents an apartment once tenanted by one of the missing girls and begins investigating the case, thinking it might make a great first book. Kristi's old college sweetheart, Jay McKnight, provides an unexpected surprise (and protection) when he shows up as the fill-in for one of Kristi's professors. Not too surprisingly, Vlad, the mysterious serial killer, sets his sights on Kristi. Adding hot sauce to the blood bath is Kristi's new supernatural ability to detect anyone marked for a life-or-death struggle when she sees a person go from living color to deadly gray or black-and-white. Jackson peppers the action with insights into the challenges faced by law enforcement agencies trying to solve crimes in post-Katrina Louisiana. (Apr.)
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From AudioFile
When four young women disappear from All Saints College, neither the college nor the New Orleans Police take much notice. But Kristi Bentz is interested, so she enrolls at the school to investigate the disappearances with the intent of writing a book about them. She encounters a cult of vampirism, horror, and murder, and by the time she gets the attention of the police, she herself has become a victim. Joyce Bean does the best job possible with the melodramatic and repetitive writing (especially the sex scenes). Her character voices are believable and well differentiated, and she handles the over-the-top aspects of the story adroitly. Nonetheless, this book would be more appealing in an abridged version. S.S.R. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Lost Souls (Hardcover) Kristi Bentz wants to be a true-crime writer. She's got a great background for it, having already tangled with two serial killers in her young life. Against her over-protective father's wishes, she re-enrolls in All Saints College in Baton Rouge. All Saints has livened up its English Department with attractive professors and trendy courses, but all is not well. Four girls have disappeared in the past two years, all enrolled in the same English courses including The Influence of Vampyrism in Modern Culture and Literature. Kristi sees the coed disappearances as subject matter for her first book, and her research draws her into a ring of evil. She infiltrates a group of students who play in vampire chat rooms, wear tiny vials of blood on gold chains, and hold secret meetings after hours in the cellar of a museum. She's determined to solve the mystery of the disappearances, against the wishes of her father Rick, a New Orleans detective, and her boyfriend Jay McKnight, back in her life after a breakup years before. While LOST SOULS is based on a vampire theme, its evil is strictly of this world rather than supernatural. The main characters are well drawn and engaging; the dialog and action flow easily. One of the strong elements is the moody atmosphere of post-Katrina Louisiana, effectively woven into the story. I took one star off for a bit more foreshadowing than I like; otherwise this is a thoroughly entertaining read. If you like complex, well written romantic suspense novels with a double dose of suspense, don't miss LOST SOULS. Author Lisa Jackson kept me reading -- and guessing -- right to the end. Thanks also to bookreporter dot com, in whose contest I won an ARC of this excellent book. "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad. Linda Bulger, 2008

Lost Souls
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Updated on 11-9-2008.