BLOOD CRIMES BY DAVE ZELTSERMAN

Let’s face it; most vampires are big girl’s blouses. If Tom Cruise in ‘Interview With A Vampire’ is anything to go by then the typical vampire is about as scary as Adam Ant’s ‘Dandy Highwayman’.

But there’s nothing of the New Romantic about the vampires in Dave Zeltserman’s ‘Blood Crimes’. These are hard rocking creatures of the night. Indeed, the book kicks off with our heroes ,Jim and Carol, driving along an archetypal American highway listening to The Doors ‘Riders On The Storm’. This sets the tone of 'Blood Crimes' perfectly although there’s more than one ‘killer on the road’ in this hardboiled take on the vampire legend.

Jim and Clara are classic noir lovers on the run, like those in They Drive By Night, Theives Like Us,Badlands and Natural Born Killers.  They’re trying to escape from Serena – a rich,vampire femme fatale – and Metcalf – an ex CIA hit man who performs experiments on vampires in an underground laboratory. Throw a world weary Private Eye and a biker gang into the mix and you have a really well written, blood splattered and very cinamatic page turner that fans of From Dusk Till Dawn and Near Dark will love. And not a lavender fop in sight!

BLOOD CRIMES is the first of a five part series and I can’t wait to sink my teeth into the rest.