The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background appears to be a blurred photograph of a green tinted underpass. In the foreground of the, the black silhouette of a skinny ghoulish creature in long, tattered robes.
Text at the top of the image reads”
“Nothing in life is free…” in small, white capitals,
The title “Blood Price”, with “Blood” in large, red capitals, and “Price” in slightly smaller white capitals immediately below it.
Text at the bottom of the image reads:
The author’s name “Tanya Huff” in slightly smaller, white capitals. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Blood
• Death
• Animal Death
• Bullying
• Gun Violence
• Misogyny
• Self-Harm
• Suicide

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Summary:

It began with blood and death. And Vicki Nelson, PI was at the scene. The victim had been brutally, inhumanly opened up. Messy work. She’d had to cover the corpse with her coat. It had sort of made her feel involved. Now Vicki is caught up in the deadly pursuit of a mass murderer with an inhuman appetite for mayhem and destruction. And her advisor on the case is doing nothing to dampen her growing sense of foreboding. But then, with a being of unspeakable evil stalking the city, only Vicki Nelson would ally herself to Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate child of Henry VIII and a five-hundred-year-old vampire.

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Notes:

The book was originally published in 1991, however this cover is from a 2007 edition.

This is the first book in the Victory Nelson’s Blood Investigations series.

This book (and its accompanying series) were adapted into a short-lived TV show in 2007 titled “Blood Ties”.

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Archivist Comments:

This book was suggested to me along with a big boom of vampire and paranormal recommendations from a bunch of different people. I remember reading the summary thinking it was pretty standard and then doing a double take at the whole “illegitimate child of Henry VIII” thing. Incredible stuff.

I’m not entirely sure what the MCs vision problems stem from- I’ve only ever seen her visual impairment referred to and not explained- but the TV adaptation chose to explain it as a form of “retinopathia pigmentosa”, which I believe is a form of retinal degeneration. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

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