Blood Price

By Tanya Huff

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Average Rating: (See all reviews) Format: Paperback, 272 pages Published In: United States, September 2007 Quantity Available: 3 24 hour shipping In the distant future, humans and several other races have been granted membership in the Confederation -- at a price. They must act as soldier/protectors of the far more civilized races who have long since turned away from war.... Publisher: Daw Books ISBN: 0756405017 EAN: 9780756405014 Dimensions: 17.4 x 12.5 x 1.91 centimeters (0.14 kg)

I found this book a little all over the place. It goes from Vicki to Henry to another attact back to henry, to the book Henry's writing etc. At times found it a little hard to remember where I was up to.
It starts with Vicki finding a dead body, which is just the start for a serial killer. Vicki is an ex-cop now PI who always seems on the edge of anger & frustration, most of this seems to be from her failing eyesight which forced her to leave the police force & her ex partner in both work & home. She meets vampire Henry Fitzroy & even thou he knocks her out when they first met they join forces to find the killer. Despite the attraction to each other I didnt fully buy this friendship seemed to forced. The idea of the story line was good but sometimes struggled thru.

The book opens with a murder in a subway station, and Vicki gets a fleeting glimpse of the perpetrator, who seems almost supernatural to her in his fleetness. Her old friend from the department, Mike Celluci, comes to the crime scene, and we get the first in a series of escalating confrontations (conversations?) between these two volatile people. Two more murders happen in quick succession, and soon the tabloids have convinced people that a vampire is stalking the city. Henry Fitzroy, a real vampire, is understandably offended, and through a convoluted series of events, starts working with Vicki to find the real killer. Vicki has been hired by the girlfriend of the first victim, who is also convinced a vampire is on the loose.