292 pages
English language
Published May 2, 2008 by Ace Books.
Tess Corday, Occult Special Investigator for Vancouver's Mystical Crime Lab, is used to seeing dead vampires. But there's nothing ordinary about this case. Not the lab results on the cause of death. Not the teenage girl living at the address found in the vamp's pocket, who may well be in thrall to a demon. And certainly not Lucian Agrado, the necromancer who is liaison to the vampire community. Agrado is supposed to be part of the solution, but Tess suspects he might be part of the problem. Soon she finds herself in the middle of a paranormal conspiracy that will change her life forever—and possibly end it.
Why do I keep trying to read these books? This is the third or fourth book about bureaucracies dealing with the paranormal I've attempted to read, and it was so boring I couldn't get through the first chapter. Partly just not great writing, but part of it may have been I just wasn't in the mood.
