[book_talk] book review - Tanya Huff
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- Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 08:47:40 -0800
_Blood Price_
by Tanya Huff
narrated by Justine Eyre
Vicky Nelson was forced to leave her job as a homicide detective in
spite of her success rate when retinitis pigmentosa threatened her
vision. She's not seen former colleague and lover Mike Cellucci since
her retirement, but that changes when she stumbles upon the first of
what proves a series of ghastly murders taking place throughout Toronto
in the darkest hours of the night, just after midnight. The tabloids
soon christen these "the Vampire Killings," and when Vicky finds
herself hired as a private detective by the girlfriend of the first
victim to find the monster who killed her Ian, she finds that the
tabloids are understating the nature of the killer.
Henry Fitzroy is concerned about these killings because if the general
public becomes convinced that a vampire is indeed killing people
throughout Toronto this threatens him. He, after all, IS a vampire and
has been one for four hundred fifty years or so. But he and Vicky,
forced to help one another, learn all too soon that the killer isn't
another of Henry's kind, but instead a demon being loosed upon the city
by a self-centered university student. How are they going to gain
control of the situation, and how is Vicky going to convince Mike that
Henry isn't to blame for the horror that's being unleashed upon the
city?
A fun story I got from Audible. As it was published in 1991 it may
seem a bit dated in some ways, but I enjoyed it thoroughly, and I
readily admit that I rarely read anything to do with vampires! And
although I noted some anachronisms concerning a few of her details, her
description of Vicky's RP was spot on for a change!
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise
cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
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