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Supernatural
Detectives
Detectives who use, or search
for, the supernatural including vampires, werewolves, and fairies.
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- Kelley Armstrong. Bitten
(Women of the Other World series)
- Written with the visceral power of Anne Rice, "Bitten" presents
the fascinating story of a woman struggling for her identity.
This daring literary suspense novel tells of the repercussions
that occur when a smart, beautiful young woman learns that the
man she's engaged to is a werewolf.
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- Lee Driver. The
Good Die Twice (Chase Dagger series)
- Chase Dagger is a private detective with no past, a sometime
fiancee, a scarlet macaw with a photographic memory, and a beautiful
assistant with the ability to shapeshift. Dagger has a knack for
attracting the most unusual cases. So when a client informs him
he received a call from his wife, the detective isn't surprised
to learn that the wife has been dead for five years.
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- Lois Duncan. The
Third Eye
- High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers
will make her seem different from other people, is frightened
at first when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help
the police locate missing children.
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- P.N. Elrod. Bloodlist
(Vampire Files series)
- Jack
Fleming, ace reporter, always had a weak spot for strange ladies.
And he certainly should have listened to the one who said she
was a vampire! Because when a thug blasts several bullets through
Jack's back, he does not die--and discovers that he is a vampire
as well! First in an exciting new vampire adventure series.
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- Andrew M. Greeley. Irish
Gold (Nuala Anne McGrail series)
- In
Ireland to discover why his grandparents left there during the
Troubles, American Dermot Michael Coyne becomes the target of
someone who does not want the past revealed, and only beautiful
Nuala Anne McGreal (a fairy) stands between him and certain death.
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- Laurell K. Hamilton. Guilty
Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series)
- Introducing Anita Blake, vampire hunter extraordinaire. Most
people don't even bat an eye at vampires since they've been given
equal rights by the Supreme Court. But Anita knows better--she's
seen their victims. . . . A serial killer is murdering vampires,
however, and now the most powerful vampire in town wants Anita
to find the killer.
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- Laurell K. Hamilton. Kiss
of Shadows (Merry Gentry series)
- Posing as a human in Los Angeles, Meredith Gentry, Princess
of the high court of Faerie, works as a P.I. specializing in supernatural
crime. The Faerie Queen sends her assassin to fetch Meredith back--whether
she likes it nor not. Meredith's job will be to enjoy the constant
company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. Her reward:
the crown and the opportunity to live. If she fails, her penalty
is death.
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- Charlaine Harris. Dead
Until Dark (Southern Vampire series)
- Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana,
but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her
"disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't
hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for
all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire
with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed,
she fears she's next.
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- Christopher Pike. The
Last Vampire (series)
- Suspecting
the detective she killed in self-defense is stalking her, a vampire
becomes a high-school student to befriend the detective's son,
with whom she falls in love.
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- Elena Santangelo. By
Blood Possessed (Pat Montella series)
- Introducing a charming new mystery series with a refreshing,
unusual heroine: a modern-day woman with a window into the past.
Pat Montella goes to Virginia to meet with 91 year old Magnolia
Shelby. Magnolia wants to bequeath Pat her house.
Just when she starts to get the lay of the land, Pat starts to
notice out-of-date details. The past stirs up danger in
the present.
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- Vampire
Detectives
- Nineteen
vampire tales include the story of a Toronto vampire detective
who is pitted against one of her own kind, a Hollywood private
eye who finds a script becoming dangerously real, and a cop on
the trail of a bloodthirsty killer.
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