If you want a GOOD vampire-PI novel, go read "Already Dead" by Charlie Houston.Two stars for a good plot. But that's about it. The author uses a lot of words but says little. The protagonist has to tell us everything that's happening - long paragraphs of explanation that just bog down the action. The description also tended to be along the lines of "you don't really want to know what's behind that door; it's really, really bad and will gross you out." Yes, and? So? My imagination isn't that good; it's the author's job to fill in those blanks.And the dialogue! Talk about stilted. The female character actually says 'forfend' at one point. Come on!I know I'm one of the dissenters of this, but the author just didn't convince me about the setting or the characters.I bought this because 'someone' had thought enough about his writing that they had published more than one novel. So much for that method of picking up new authors....