Blood red

Format:

Book

Title:

Blood red

Author:

Graham, Heather.

ISBN:

9780778324867

9780739484036

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

347 pages ; 24 cm.

Series title(s):

Mira paranormal.

Summary:

When a fortune-teller in New Orleans predicts her grisly death, Lauren Crow laughs it off, until she meets a self-proclaimed vampire hunter on a mission of vengeance, who plunges her into the middle of a vicious war between the living and the dead.

Subject(s):

Vampires -- Fiction.

New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.

Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Genre:

Romantic suspense fiction.

Holds:

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Summary

When a fortune-teller shows bridesmaid Lauren Crow anomen of her gruesome death, she and her friends laugh itoff as cheesy theatrics--until women begin disappearingin the night.

Even as the streets become more dangerous, Lauren findsherself lusting after a man who is himself dangerous--and quite possibly crazy. Mark Davidson prowls the cityby night armed with crosses and holy water, in searchof vampires, whose existence, he insists, is real. He is asirresistibly drawn to Lauren as she is to him, and not onlybecause she's the image of his murdered fiancée. ButMark's frightening obsession with finding his lover's killermerely hides a bitter vendetta that cuts deeper than griefover a lost love.

As Lauren wrestles with desire and disbelief, sinistershadows lengthen over New Orleans, threatening herfriends and foretelling a battle that may spell the end ofthe city's uneasy truce between the living and the undead.

Author Notes

Heather Graham is a pseudonym for Heather Graham Pozzessere. She is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author who has written over one hundred novels. She has won the RWA's Lifetime Achievement Award and rhe The Thriller Writers' Silver Bullet. Her series include: Camerons Saga: North American Woman Trilogy, Camerons Saga: Civil War Trilogy, Donna Miro and Lorna Doria Series and MacAuliffe Vikings Trilogy.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Graham's latest is an entertaining vampire yarn set in post-Katrina New Orleans, where three women-Lauren, Heidi and Deanna-have turned up for a carefree bachelorette weekend. Once there a fortune teller shows Lauren a crystal ball image of a man calling her by name and promising "a world of blood and death and darkness." The vision, unseen by her friends, puts Lauren on her guard, convinced that someone is following her. She's doubly right: an evil vampire named Stephen is on her trail, having seen in Lauren the visage of his lost love, while a vampire hunter named Mark Davidson is on Stephen's. Soon, Lauren falls in with Mark, counting on him to protect her from the single-minded bloodsucker; as she learns more about the vampire underworld, however, she finds things aren't all they seem. This quick, dirty read makes great use of its New Orleans backdrop and its allusive story line-patched together skillfully from pieces of Bram Stoker's original and its consequent reinterpretations-though fans already steeped in vamp lit may find its charms don't outweigh its predictability. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

"Lauren Crow is in New Orleans for a bachelorette weekend, and the bride-to-be wants all her bridesmaids to have their fortunes told. In a crystal ball, Lauren sees a handsome but menacing stranger who says he is coming to get her. This terrifies the fortune-teller, and Mark Davidson, a vampire slayer with ties to the police, is quite taken aback when he sees Lauren for the first time. She could be an identical twin to Katie, his intended, who was murdered at their wedding. It is good vampires versus evil vampires as each day a young woman's headless corpse turns up in the Mississippi River. Once again, prolific and popular Graham provides satisfying romantic suspense and likable characters."--"Tixier Herald, Diana" Copyright 2007 Booklist