Blood Will Tell

When Professor Everett Land is found dead, detective Brandy Mather has a puzzle on her hands. The body is definitely his; dental records confirm his identity. But Professor Land is in his forties and the body is that of a very old man. What could have caused him to age so rapidly? Why is the corpse smiling? Brandy enlists the aid of computer scientist Dan Martin, who is smart, handsome, and anxious to help. Dan is almost too good to be true, and Brandy soon falls in love. But something is off about Dan. . . very off. Brandy’s investigation soon throws her into the midst of small-town politics, bank robberies, and vampires.

From Booklist

Kentucky police detective and Olympic gold-medal marksman Brandy Mather is intrigued by the smiling, aged body found in the office of a heretofore missing professor, who now is deemed to have died of old age. When other corpses, including Brandy's best friend, turn up with the same expression, she is determined to solve their cases. While investigating she meets Professor Dan Martin, to whom she is mysteriously drawn. As their relationship progresses he reveals that he is a hereditary vampire who does not kill. Meanwhile, the judge whom Brandy and her partner suspect of working with drug dealers seems to be involved up to his eyeballs, or retractable fangs. Although Lorrah's writing is clunky and some of the plot elements so obvious that one wants to shake Brandy, who is amazingly obtuse given that she is described as astute and intuitive, Lorrah's vampire lore and the twists and turns her revelation of it entail make her novel--an interesting combination of mystery, romance, and horror--worth reading. Diana Tixier HeraldCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

About the Author

Jean Lorrah is the author of The New York Times bestsellers Survivors, Metamorphosis, and Vulcan Academy Murders; and the Savage Empire series. She is the coauthor of the cult favorite Sime~Gen series. She lives in Murray, Kentucky.

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