Paperback, 336 pages
Published Oct. 6, 2004 by Orbit.
It began with blood and death. And Vicki Nelson, PI was at the scene. The victim had been brutally, inhumanly opened up. Messy work. She'd had to cover the corpse with her coat. It had sort of made her feel involved. Now Vicki is caught up in the deadly pursuit of a mass murderer with an inhuman appetite for mayhem and destruction. And her advisor on the case is doing nothing to dampen her growing sense of foreboding. But then, with a being of unspeakable evil stalking the city, only Vicki Nelson would ally herself to Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate child of Henry VIII and a five-hundred-year-old vampire.
I enjoyed the TV show, Blood Ties, and was disappointed when it got cancelled. So I was happy to find out it was based on a series of books. This first book is very similar to the first episode, so I knew what was likely to happen but still an enjoyable read. It's nice that the heroine doesn't have superpowers but instead a disability.
