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legna
12-31-2001, 08:44 PM
"Blood Price" by Tanya Huff

Blood Price, the name of the book doesn't bring up images of a book I would even think about reading. It was retreaved out of the Science Fiction section, a section I would never dream of walking into, by my shopping companion. Handed to me "You'll enjoy this". Looking at them crosseyed, pretty sure they were wrong, until after reading the blurb. Ok- so it looked intresting. I bought it.
Blood Price is the type of book that you don't read if you want to sleep. It begins simply, a woman happens to be present when she overhears a murder. An ex-homicide-cop, who quit because of failing eyesight, she quickly secures the scene and calls the police. After that, the book is no longer simple.
Hired by the girlfriend of the murded man, Vicki, PI and ex-cop, and coinisdentally the woman who walked in on the very murder hired to invistigate, find that the deaths could not possibly be being caused by a mortal. With newspapers screaming Vampire, and more bodies turning up, missing throats and drained of blood, Vicki is in a race against time to solve the murders.
What makes this book, more than a simple murder mystery (and also why I suspect it was in the sci-fi section), is that there is also something else searching for the killer. Henry Fitzroy, illegitimate son of Henry VIII- vampire.
Vicki and Henry get thrown together to battle a killer neither of them know anything about, and one the police don't believe in.
A book I didn't put down once after picking it up.


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9 out of 10 stars
View the book (http://www.vstore.com/cgi-bin/pagegen/vstoremovies/filimhobbit/page.html?mode=itempage&file=/page/itempagev4/itempage.spl&prodID=1281724&catID=26307)

Valkary
12-31-2001, 09:03 PM
If you liked this you will be happy to know there are 5 of them in the series. I own them all and very much enjoyed them.

Vicki is a great character. Each book has a seperate villan.

Werewolves, Mummy, Frankenstien, can Ghosts are the other 4 themes if I'm not mistaken.

Don't you love finding a book your really like and then find out the series is already there? So much better than pining away for the next chapter in the saga.

legna
12-31-2001, 09:05 PM
Actually- I have reviews on all 5... I just didn't want to post them all at once.

Film Hobbit
01-01-2002, 02:04 PM
pssst Legna, you are supposed to be linking these things in from my bookstore, not Amazon.com

legna
01-02-2002, 01:55 PM
Oops- sorry. I already had this written with the links and forgot toc hange them.

Will do.