Blood Pact
By Tanya Huff, 1993
Series: Victoria Nelson

"It began with a 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 Sciences Department told Vicki that the cause of death was a heart attack, and that they'd been waiting for her to arrive in Kingston to make funeral arrangements. But what started off as an all too normal personal tragedy soon became the most terrifying case of Vicki's career. For when Marjorie Nelson's body mysteriously disappeared from the funeral home, Vicki, her sometime lover and fellow investigator, vampire Henry Fitzroy, and her former homicide squad parter, Detective-Sergeant Mike Celluci, realized that there was something unnatural about her mother's demise. Vicki swore she's 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!" (description from back of book)

Paperback Info: ISBN 0886775825, Daw Books (Available)

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