Darkened Hills - The Latest Novel From Author Gary Vincent

Online, December 2, 2010 (Newswire.com) - "Darkened Hills" sees the emergence of the Dracula legend in a small American town outside of Pittsburgh called Melas. After the intense popularity of the twilight saga, the vampire genre has seen a huge rise in readers but make no mistake, there's no romanticised teen angst and sulking werewolves, Vincent's portrayal takes the monster back to what he does best.

Reviews of the book have been very complimentary to say the least with few ratings below 5 out of 5 on the leading book sites with one review stating "The characters are very real, and each one is drawn in a way that suits their place and importance in the terrible unfolding drama exactly. We should applaud the writing craft that goes into achieving this".

It's an undeniably clever plot, which Vincent handles with enormous confidence and virtuosity. There's the odd memorable piece of description- one character has "a memory like a steel trap"- but the writing is never self-indulgent. With a very positive response from readers and critics alike, some even predicting a potential movie in the making, Darkened Hills is set to be a must-read for 2010 and no-doubt a future resident of Amazon's bestseller list. Publicist Jamie Cooper said of the book "it's a fantastic novel and has been very well received worldwide with orders coming from both side of the Atlantic. It's a great plot and it's one of those books that when you start reading, you just can't stop."

The author himself, Gary Lee Vincent, is an accomplished writer in addition to being a successful entrepreneur, property developer and musician but it is his skill as an author that is evident from the way the reader is immediately thrown into the fictional world of Jonny and William right from the first page. And it only gets better with the introduction of more characters from the the voyeuristic security guard with an odd past-time to the laissez-faire police deputy writing up reports as he drives and they are all caught up in the growing terror of the small town.

Extraordinary events envelope the most ordinary of places; the only sign of the what's waiting is what you find when you spell "Melas" backwards.