Where Huff’s story differs greatly from more recent urban fantasy books is in how Blood Price reads more like a crime fiction novel, albeit with a supernatural veneer. It is a book that hasn’t really been helped by the passage of time, and that’s not so much because of any perceived outdatedness, but more because the huge increase in the popularity of urban fantasy since the turn of the century, and the subsequent saturation of the market that has seen the arrival of numerous superior offerings. Joining forces with a former detective turned private investigator, Vicki Nelson, he sets out to eliminate a supernatural killer before anyone discovers there is more to him than meets the eye.īlood Price is book one of Canadian author, Tanya Huff’s 1990’s urban fantasy series that was more recently adapted into the television series, Blood Ties, a decade ago.

Henry Fitzroy sleeps during the day, works at night, and hasn’t noticeably aged in four centuries.

Of course, nobody―not even the headline writers―believes that vampires are real, and one man in the city has a vested interest in ensuring this remains the case. Fearing for his sanity, he called upon his sometime-lover and comrade in supernatural investigations, ex-cop Vicki Nelson, for help.A series of brutal murders in Toronto gives rise to sensationalist reports about a vampire terrorising the city all the victims had their throats torn out and their bodies drained of blood. For Henry Fitzroy, 450-year-old vampire, it began with a haunting, inescapable image of the sun, a terrifying symbol of death to one such as he. And only three people had even a hint that anything was wrong.

Brought to the Egyptology Department of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum, the seals and spells that imprisoned him chipped away by his discoverers, he reached forth to claim the minds and souls of the unsuspecting city dwellers, to begin building an empire for himself and his god. Now, at last, the waiting had come to an end. Sealed away through unending centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, he had patiently waited for the opportunity to live again, for the chance to feed on the unwary and grow strong.

Blood price by tanya huff