Hollywood, California: three gruesome deaths within two weeks and every one of them a major star - an Oscar winner, an ingénue, and an action hero. A serial killer is working through the Hollywood A-list and celebrities are running scared.
Each crime scene is worthy of a classic horror movie, and all three victims share a connection to the powerful scream queen, Ovsanna Moore. The stunning and formidable Moore is the legendary head of a Hollywood studio, as well as the writer and star of seventeen blockbuster horror films (and a few that went straight to DVD).
She’s also a 500 year old vampyre… but this is Hollywood after all, and no one ever looks their age.
Beverly Hills Police Detective Peter King knows a lot about the City of Angels, but he certainly doesn’t know that most of the famous actors in town are actually an established network of vampires. Or that secretive and seductive Ovsanna Moore happens to be their CEO.
Moore and King may be from opposite sides of the Hollywood Hills, but both have something to gain by stopping the killer who the tabloids have dubbed the Cinema Slayer. Ovsanna must protect her vampire legacy and her production schedule, while King just wants to keep his Beverly Hills beat as blood-free as possible. But when the horror queen and the cop with the movie star looks form an unholy alliance, sparks fly and so do the creatures of the night.
Film, television and Broadway star Adrienne Barbeau and New York Times bestselling author Michael Scott have teamed up to deliver this sexy, scary, and deliciously clever novel full of Hollywood glamour, behind-the-scenes secrets, and the truly bloodthirsty reality of Tinseltown. So grab some popcorn and some holy water and lose yourself in the high-stakes, back-stabbing world of the Vampyres of Hollywood.
Adrienne began her theatrical career in 1963, entertaining American G.I.s on Army bases throughout Southeast Asia. From there she moved to New York where she made her Broadway debut as Tevye's second daughter, Hodel, in "Fiddler on the Roof". A Tony nomination and a Theatre World Award for her creation of Rizzo in the original Broadway production of "Grease" led her back to California and the role of Bea Arthur's daughter, Carol, in the hit series "Maude".
Movie fans know her best for her performances in "The Fog", "Escape From New York", "Creepshow", "Swamp Thing", "Back to School", and "Cannonball Run". She has a Golden Globe nomination and over 450 screen performances to her credit. Drew Carey fans know her as Oswald's mom and she starred as Ruthie, the Snake Dancer, on HBO's fascinating series, "Carnivale". Most recently, she has guest starred on "Grey's Anatomy", "Dexter", "Cold Case", and "The New Adventures of Old Christine".
In 2006, just as her first book was published, she returned to New York to garner standing ovations as Judy Garland in "The Property Known As Garland".
Off camera, Adrienne is the voice of Catwoman in "Batman, The Animated Series", Ms. Simone in "Scooby-Do on Zombie Island", and Scooter's Mom in the 3-D animated film "Fly Me To The Moon". She can be heard in a myriad of video games: "God of War" and "Batman, Arkham Asylum" among them.
Adrienne began her writing career with the best-selling memoir "There Are Worse Things I Could Do". She followed that with "Vampyres of Hollywood", a thriller about an A-list Hollywood scream queen who just happens to be a 450 year old vampire. The sequel "Love Bites" will be published this summer.
In March of 1997, Adrienne gave birth to identical twin boys making her "the only woman on the maternity ward who was a member of AARP". She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Billy Van Zandt, and the twins, William and Walker. Whenever she can, she travels to Japan to visit her older son, Cody Carpenter.
