Blood Price introduces series characters Vicki, her former Toronto Homicide partner, Detective Mike Celluci, and Henry Fitzroy: romance author, bastard son of Henry VIII, and vampire. Vicki has retired from the force in her early 30s because of a diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa. Yeah, there would still have been a place there for one of the best investigators they ever had, but not the same place. So Vicki decides to turn PI instead.

Bodies are turning up with their throats ripped out in a single stroke, drained of blood. The police have no answers and rumors about killer vampires arise. Henry has survived this long by blending in and so decides he'd better find the killer before someone reaches half-valid conclusions about his own nocturnal habits and acts on them before he can convince them he's a good guy vampire. Vicki is neither embracing nor rejecting supernatural explanations, until she meets Henry, after they both independently figure out where the next killing is likely to occur, and stake the place out...

In Blood Trail, Vicki and Henry have achieved an uneasy partnership as investigators and as people. There's mutual attraction, but with complications. Vampires have an innate ability to, well, vamp people into adoring obedience. A somewhat necessary skill if you need regular meals of human blood without resorting to violence. Vicki is strong-minded and independent enough to automatically resent and resist it, while also realizing that there's an underlying attraction that is mutual and real. Celluci, with whom she has been more than just professional partners, has his own ideas on the subject. Because Vicki is a first class investigator Henry can trust, who dealt well with his own supernatural status, when some werewolf friends need help finding the sniper who is killing them off, there's really only one place for him to turn...

I'm not usually a vampire or supernatural story fan, but these are books you read because they are well-written, well plotted, exciting stories first; tales involving supernatural characters second. This combined edition runs over 500 pages and I just gobbled it down in half the time I've taken to get through much shorter but less captivating tales. Highly recommended.