Vampires and murder mysteries are dark and chilling subjects, but I was not prepared for how genuinely unsettling this book was, especially when I was reading it at night. Who wouldn’t be sucked in by that?! Fortunately, it totally lived up to my expectations. Mina must discover the truth and prove her sister's innocence before she becomes the victim of another myth.Īs soon as I read the synopsis of this book, I knew I had to read it: 90s New Orleans, vampires, summer and a murder mystery. Someone is replicating New Orleans' most brutal supernatural killings. She can't wait to explore the city's darkest secrets - vampire tours, seedy bars, spooky cemeteries, disturbing local myths.Īnd it gets even better when Mina lands a part-time job at a horror movie mansion and meets Jared, Libby's gorgeous housemate, co-worker and fellow horror enthusiast.īut the perfect summer bliss is broken when, while exploring the mansion, Mina stumbles upon the body of a girl with puncture marks on her neck, clutching a lock of hair that suspiciously resembles Libby's. After growing up in the town that inspired Dracula, Mina loves nothing more than a creepy horror movie. Mina's having a summer to die for.ġ7-year-old Mina, from England, arrives in New Orleans to visit her estranged sister, Libby. In Amy McCaw’s debut novel, ‘Mina and the Undead’, Mina was 17 in 1995 and in great movie tradition, her summer trip to New Orleans changed everything. A 90s summer to me is full of big questions, big answers, and big fun, because I’m an American teen movie aficionado, of course, and I was too young to experience it myself. My childhood existed in that famed cultural decade, but I wasn’t a teenager during this time.

Mina and the undead