Vampire Detective Midnight by J.C. Andrijeski

It was intense enough, he almost got hard, but he’d gotten pretty good at squelching that reaction, too. Taking a few full whiffs, he felt his fangs begin to extend in earnest.Ī flush of heat hit his gut and chest, burning in his throat. Nose wrinkling, he crouched down so he could smell it from closer, even though the scent was overpowering, even from a lot further away. Nick hesitated then, realizing something.įrowning, he stepped closer to the pools of blood. “Without knowing who the victims are, or what brought them to this alley, it’s pretty hard to speculate on motive, but…” “Anyway, that’s what I can tell you so far,” he said, making his voice deliberately casual. There was something wrong with this blood. Nick frowned, staring around at the alley floor. VAMPIRE DETECTIVE MIDNIGHT is book #1 of a gritty, romantic new series set in a futuristic, dystopian New York, involving vampires, humans and psychics trying to rebuild their world after a devastating race war that nearly obliterated all of them. Instead, he gets sucked in even deeper, until he’s pretty sure he’ll end up forcibly reprogrammed by his human masters - assuming they don’t just rip his heart out of his chest and be done with it. It starts with a weird case involving inexplicable paintings that predict murders before they happen.īetween his mystery painter, a bunch of dead hybrid-humans, a conspiracy involving the richest families in New York, and a school principal who has an unsettling effect on him, Nick finds he can’t get personally uninvolved with any of it. More than anything, he just wants to be left alone, to finish out his immortality in peace… but he’s barely there two weeks when things already start to go sideways. Still, he’s determined to play by the rules. Like all state-registered vamps, he gets his food delivered to his door, lives in government housing, and basically can’t sneeze without the U.S. Vampire with a past and homicide detective, Naoko “Nick” Tanaka just got transferred to the NYPD, where he works as a “Midnight,” or vampire in the employ of the human police.

Vampire Detective Midnight by J.C. Andrijeski