Book Reviews: Blood Lines and Blood Pact by Tany Huff

The two books are combined in Volume Two of The Blood Books by Tanya Huff.

Blood Lines by Tanya Huff
DAW Books
268 Pages
Copyright 1993

From the back of the book:

For Henry Fitzroy, 450-year-old vampire, it began with a haunting, inescapable image of the sun, a terrifying symbol of death to one such as he. Fearing for his sanity, he called upon his sometime-lover and comrade in supernatural investigations, ex-cop Vicki Nelson, for help. And even as the two struggled to cope with Henry’s obsession, Vicki’s closest friend and former partner, Police Detective Mike Celluci was following up on two mysterious deaths at the museum, certain he was looking at murders not accidents – and equally convinced that the killer was a mummy brought back from the dead.

I don’t have a lot more to add on this one; the synopsis pretty much says it all. The one thing I can add is that the bad guy in this book was one of those bad guys that makes it hard to read the book.

Blood Pact by Tanya Huff
DAW Books
280 Pages
Copyright 1993

Again, from the back of the book:

It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. Mrs. Nelson’s coworker at the Queen’s University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of death was a heart attack, and that they’d be waiting for her to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral arrangements. But what started as an all too normal personal tragedy soon became the most terrifying case of Vicki’s career. For when Marjory Nelson’s body mysteriously disappeared from the funeral home, Vicki, vampire Henry Fitzroy, and Detective-Sergeant Mike Celluci realized that there was something unnatural about her mother’s demise. Vicki swore she’d find the culprit, and see that her mother was properly laid to rest. But what she hadn’t counted on was that someone at Queen’s University seemed determined to keep Mrs. Nelson on the job – alive or dead!

It’s not exactly a new story line but Huff handles it very well. And I can honestly say that I didn’t see the ending coming at all.

Recommendation: I’m still enjoying the stories and Huff’s handling of Vicki, Henry, and Mike. Not so sure I liked the way Blood Pact ended but Huff pulled it off well.