Lisa Jackson

Kristi Benz heads back to college because she wants to write true crime stories and the college she attends had four girls go missing. Everyone says they ran away and the police don’t want to investigate. Kristi decides to do some investigating herself and finds out they may have belong to a vampire cult on campus. Soon she finds herself in trouble and oh, yeah, her ex-boyfriend teaches a class at the school. A romantic suspense story it is. Fifth in a series, but still works well as a standalone as they add a little back story which doesn’t affect the storyline.… (altro)

I've read Lisa Jackson before (a client was reading a book of hers and said it was good) so when I saw this title on the library sale shelf I thought I'd give it a try.

I'm not sure if it's true, but it feels like this was written during the vampire literature craze (think Twilight etc.) and in response to that craze.

I do like the neat turn of phrase where Lost Souls can represent several things: losing your soul/losing your way in your faith; Catholic teachings on losing your soul (since this is set at a Catholic college); the references to lost souls in vampiric literature.

I liked the idea of Kristi Bentz wanting to write true crime books, but the execution did fall a bit flat at times, so I'm not sure it's one of Jackson's best.

Like most titles in the genre, there are references to sexual escapades--perhaps a few more in this book than in ones I've read recently.… (altro)