David and Aimee Thurlo
As a Navajo half-vampire, he has one disadvantage. He is extremely attractive to skinwalkers, the evil Navajo witches (shapeshifters), who seek his blood to give themselves power. To protect his people, the Navajo, he has made it his job to track down these skinwalkers and kill them before they kill him.
Enter FBI agent Diane Lopez, who is supposedly investigating an attack on Lee several months previous, but is really trying to find out why Lee is investigating a certain German national here in the United States for Air Force training. From the moment she meets state police officer Leo Hawk, Lee Nez's current identity, things start happening--strange and dangerous things. She is present when a band of shapeshifters in the form of wolves attack. She witness their transformation from animal to human. Though she doesn't quite know what to believe about what happened, she joins Lee in the hunt for a panther who killed her partner.
For the first time in many years, Lee tells the whole truth about what he is, about Hans Gruber, about skinwalkers. Although at first Diane finds it hard to believe, she must accept it, for she has witnessed it personally. She agrees to help stop the skinwalkers and Hans Gruber.
It becomes a fast moving police procedural with lots of interesting twists and turns before the bad guys are finally left lying in the sunlight to fry to a crisp and the nation is once again saved from terrorists.
This book has all the elements I really enjoy. Great writing, a complex chase, cops and bad guys, the mystic of the Navajos and the Southwest, and vampires, both good and very bad. The Southwest is certainly a unique setting for vampires, but with a lot of SPF45 sunblock, it is handled very well.
This review was first published at http://www.MidnightBlood.com
Blood Retribution By David and Aimée Thurlo Published by Tom Doherty Associates Copyright 2004 ISBN#: 0-765-30442-2 Series: Lez Nez #2 Genre: Mystery Native American Vampire
In this sequel to SECOND SUNRISE, Lee and Diane finally hunt down the skinwalker who killed Diane's partner, finishing the case. As they are prepared to go back to their jobs, Lee on patrol with the State police and Diane to work with the FBI, a Navajo policeman and an FBI agent investigating a
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