Night Child

Informationen zum Autor Canadian Jes Battis is from Vancouver, but for the academic year 2007-2008, will be living in New York City and teaching at Hunter College. Jes is an academic, with a concentration in English and Pop Culture Studies, who has had two books published, one on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and one on Farscape. Klappentext That's a dead vampire! I thought. My boss dragged me out of bed at two in the morning to see a dead vampire? I might be an Occult Special Investigator for Vancouver's Mystical Crime Lab! but a dead vampire is routine! and no reason to disturb a person's sleep! Then I took a closer look at the body… Tess Corday soon realizes that there is not going to be anything ordinary about this case. Not the lab results on the cause of death. Not Mia Polanski! the teenage girl living at the address found in the vamp's pocket! who may well be in thrall to a demon. And certainly not Lucian Agrado! the necromancer who is liaison to the vampire community. Agrado is supposed to be part of the solution! but Tess suspects he might be part of the problem. Under pressure from her boss! Tess is trying to go by the book on this one. But when Mia reaches out to her! she risks her career to help the girl. And finds herself in the middle of a paranormal conspiracy that will change her life forever. Or possibly end it… "That's a dead vampire." Selena Ward, my boss, raised an eyebrow. "Uh-huh." "You dragged me out of bed, to a disgusting alley on Granville Street?at two in the morning?to see a dead vampire?" She handed me the clipboard with the MCS entry log. Anyone entering a mystical crime scene has to sign in first, just like a regular crime scene. The only difference is that some of our responding officers aren't human. The scene was divided into three zones with a base of operations, or staging area, near the far end of the alley where extra photographic equipment, evidence bundles, and chemical reagents could be stored in portable kits. The perimeter around the vampire's body was taped off as the primary focal point, with access far more restricted than the outer edges of the scene. It all seems orderly until you have to explain to a high-ranking investigator that she should really get the hell out of your way. I'll admit it?I did get a secret pleasure out of that sometimes. There weren't any doors or fire-escapes at the back of the alley, so the only natural point of entry and exit was the street. "Take a closer look," Selena said. "Make sure to put on gloves." Tasha Lieu, our Medical Examiner, gave me a wink as she passed by. "Just released the scene, so it's all yours." "Thanks, Tash." Selena looked tired. I was already fishing the gloves out of my purse. "Sorry to call you out so late," I said sheepishly. I'd always assumed that Tasha had some type of normal human life outside of the CORE, unlike the rest of us. She was an intensely private person, and all I really knew about her was that she lived in Marpole and had a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip taped on the wall above the autopsy sink. "No worries, I'm a night owl. See you at the morgue, bright and early tomorrow morning. I should have the post done by the time you get there." I swallowed. "Yeah, great. See you there." It was just like a trip to the dentist, only the dentist was a vivisected corpse. Not my idea of a sweet morning. Tasha waved and left the scene, stepping carefully over the caution tape. "Where's Siegel?" Selena's frown had deepened. Shit. "Parking. The strip is packed, as usual, so I sent him down to the seedier part of Nelson Street. He may have to fend off some goth-chicks, but he'll survive." West Granville was Vancouver's nightclub district, and its irregular streets were an explosion of noise and neon light. Hipsters danced the night away at Aquarius and The Pl...

Product details

• Authors: Jes Battis
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.05.2008
• EAN: 9780441016020
• ISBN: 978-0-441-01602-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 170 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Ace Fantasy Book; Osi; Ace Fantasy Book
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy