Pale Immortal

by: Anne Frasier

Published by: New American Library, a division of Penguin Group Imprint: Onyx

Reviewed by Sharron Stockhausen

Minnesota writer Anne Frasier takes us to her neighboring state of Wisconsin and the small town of Tuonela, a town that holds on to its residents while other small towns lose theirs.

A century earlier, Old Tuonela, a few miles from Tuonela, was home to The Pale Immortal, a man deemed a vampire by the locals and the reason people moved their beloved town away from the evil ground he lived on and was buried in.

As Evan Stroud became more sensitive to sun, rumors of him being a modern-day vampire buzzed around Tuonela. Dr. Rachel Burton, Evan's childhood friend and Tuonela's coroner, knew his disease, porphyria, was the real reason Stroud lived in the night world and hid from view during the day.

The same night Garth, the teenage son Stroud never knew he had, was dropped off by his mother on Stroud's doorstep, a local teenage girl was found murdered and drained of all her blood.

Garth, befriended by a group of boys fascinated with the Pale Immortal, eventually finds himself held captive in dank, dark Old Tuonela and fighting for his life.

Evan, in hiding because he's the prime suspect in the teen girl's murder, uses his advantage of living in the darkness to try to save his son.

Every time things seem about as bad as they can be, something worse happens.

Few books keep me turning pages from dark till dawn, but this one did. Be prepared, for it could happen to you too
Sharron Stockhausen served two terms as president of Twin Cities (Minnesota) Sisters In Crime.

Armchair Interviews says: Get comfy before reading this book as time will pass quickly as you turn page after page.