Andrienne Barbeau has written a book that actually sounds, well, pretty good. The star of The Fog and Swamp Thing is the co-author of Vampyres of Hollywood, a novel about a serial killer who is knocking off Hollywood stars. Of course, what the public (and investigators) don’t know is that most of the famous actors in town are vampires, who work together to further their careers and keep their secrets. Um, I think we get the joke. No less an authority than George A. Romero calls it “one of the more entertaining works of supernatural noir.”

There are tons of other books coming out this week. One of the bigger names is Iris Johansen, the bestselling author of Quicksand and a host of other books, who has teamed up with her son, Roy Johansen, on Silent Thunder, a thriller about a marine architect and the secrets she finds aboard an old Russian submarine;

Also new is Shining City, a comedy about a suburban Dad who inherits his dead brother’s dry cleaning business in Los Angeles. The formerly boring, law-abiding father finds himself hanging with mobsters when he discovers the business is a front of a high-end prostitution ring. This one just screams “movie adaptation coming soon,” doesn’t it?