The Blood Books, Volume 1

by Tanya Huff

Daw, 554 pp, $7.99

The Blood Book , Volume 1 is the first two books of the Vicki Nelson and Henry Fitzroy series. There will be two additional volumes in this series.

In Blood Price, Vicki Nelson was a homicide detective - a good one, till vision loss took her job, and she became a private investigator. She becomes enmeshed in a case involving dark magic and to stop the killings, she partners with Henry Fitzroy, a romance writer, who is also the illegitimate son of Henry VIII, and a vampire with knowledge of the occult realms.

In Blood Trail, Henry and Vicki must stop an assassin with silver bullets who is decimating a family of werewolves that had peacefully coexisted with their neighbors for centuries.

I look forward to the entire series coming out in doubles. My set of singles had gotten pretty battered in moving. For those who have never read the series, I envy your pleasure in delving into your first adventure in this world of fast moving, memorable characters and humor. If you haven’t already got them: Wallets out, Charge. - Pam Allan