The Vampire Files

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A reissue of the book that began the popular series follows Jack Fleming, ace reporter and vampire--the result of an affair with a beautiful femme fatale--as he attempts to hunt down his own shadowy murderer. Reissue.

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1 author picked The Vampire Files as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

K.B. Thorne

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This series of books by Elrod was one of my first introductions into not just vampire fiction but also this style of dryly-humorous narration. Up until my mid-to-late teens, I’d read a lot of high/epic fantasy, which is typically third person and more pragmatically written, but here I met a first-person narrator who was snarky as heck. I loved it. Not only that, but it’s a vampire P.I. story that plays in the land of noir in gangland Chicago during Prohibition. It was so engaging and fun that I devoured the series as fast as I could, and when anyone…

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