Your past will come back to haunt you.
Kit Landless roamed the streets of London in 1794. He was a robber. One night, he chose the wrong lady to rob, and his life—if you can call it that—would be forever changed. Honoria was the woman who took his life and welcomed him into the world of the undead.
Vampires live for a very long time. Travel on into the future when space travel is a common thing and other planets are being lived on. Kit and Honoria are still “alive,” but known vampires are now held prisoner in concentration camps. They are kept prisoner and not allowed out among the Breathers.
Kit is looked upon as the leader of the vampires at the camp where he and Honoria are housed. Blood is brought in for the vampires, and it is given to them by a medical person. It’s not the same as feeding on a live person, but it keeps them from wasting away from starvation.
After receiving his feeding one day, a vampire who is one of Kit’s friends comes out, and seconds later, he explodes. Can someone who is already dead be killed? Apparently so. Silver nitrate, death for a vampire, was in the blood this vampire received.
Kit is determined to find out who murdered his friend. Even if the police don’t investigate hard enough to find the killer, he will. This is the first vampire murder mystery that I’ve read, and I loved it! Why was Kit’s friend murdered? Who killed him and why? Who is hiding what? Lies and deception run rampant as Kit searches for the truth and finds that other vampires have been killed in the same way.
Once Kit discovers what happened, he also learns about the guilty party’s horrific plan of revenge. The last chapter of the book is so edge-of-your-seat intense and thrilling that it’s impossible to put the book down. Will Kit succeed in saving the imprisoned vampires from certain destruction?
The ending? I would have liked for it to end a bit differently, but it was good, made sense, and was satisfying.
I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. If you would like your own copy to read and enjoy, I’ve provided an Amazon link below.
Amazon Link: Death in the Blood
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Why Vampires? – Guest Post by Tony-Paul de Vissage
Favorite Sentences:
My body heat, or lack of it, is exactly twenty point eleven degrees . . . but what can you expect from an animated corpse?
In a long brown prisoner’s robe, the boy looked more like a penitent Franciscan friar than a convicted murderer.
Drinking albatross plasma was the equivalent of a mortal slugging down four full jiggers of undiluted whiskey.
He knew nothing about love, except that it could happen at the oddest times and in the strangest places, and it was extremely painful.
Mouth open with the gleam of stained canines, eyes blood-red and burning, he raised his arms and spun in a circle, screaming a loud cry of triumph at the night sky.
New Words Learned:
dhampir – a creature that is the result of a union between a vampire and a human. This union was usually between male vampires and female humans, with stories of female vampires mating with male humans being rare.
doxy – a prostitute
holovid – (science fiction) A holographic projection of a series of images, like a video recording.
pander– a pimp
paraspinal – adjacent to the spine
trull – a prostitute
About the Author:
A writer of French Huguenot extraction, Tony-Paul de Vissage’s first movie memory is of being six years old, viewing the old Universal horror flick, Dracula’s Daughter on television, and being scared sleepless–and that may explain a lifelong interest in vampires.
This was further inspired when the author was kidnapped by a band of transplanted Romanian vampires sightseeing in the South. Having never seen a human who wasn’t frightened of them, they offered to pay the youngster’s way through college if he would become an author and write about vampires in a positive manner. He agreed, was returned to his parents (who were also grateful for the tuition offer since it let them off the hook) and continued to keep in touch with his supernatural mentors.
Though the author didn’t begin writing horror–or any other genre–until after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from a well-known Southern University (and a second in Graphic Art), that one particular interest—and the promise made to his mentors—survived a liberal arts’ education and the scorn of friends and family. Marriage, parenthood, divorce, and a variety of occupations ranging from stage work to doctor’s assistant took precedent over writing for several years, as did moving from one United States coast to another.
Eventually that first story—a short story about the hapless vampire Clan Andriescu—was published. A voracious reader whose personal library has been shipped more than 3,000 miles, Tony-Paul has read hundreds of vampire tales and viewed more than as many movies.
TP currently has twenty-five novels published, twenty-three under the Class Act Books imprint.
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