Vampire Sunrise: Delilah Street: Paranormal Investigator

by Carole Nelson Douglas

Book Overview

WHEN THE STAKES ARE DEAD -- OR UNDEAD! Werewolf mobsters and vampires run Vegas, but that's yesterday's news for Delilah Street, paranormal investigator. What's truly fearsome is her bloody discovery... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439156778
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

keep it up!

I have read all the delilah street books and love them all keep up the good work, I look forward to the next installment.

Loved This Series

I enjoyed this book enough to pursue the two sequels. They are imaginative, fun, sexy, and unpredictable. Although vampires and werewolves are featured, these characters are not the hackneyed stereotypes.

A decent addition to a good series

Delilah Street is a paranormal investigator in Sin City: Las Vegas. Her life is complicated by many circumstances, most particularly that she's ticked off several of the mob bosses in town and the last one's agenda seems mixed at best. Her silver medium abilities include the ability to see ghosts in mirrors and travel via mirror, and her ex-FBI lover, Ric, is able to raise zombies. And then there's the mysterious 'twin' who may be a real sister or some kind of doppleganger... This story starts with boyfriend Ric still hospitalized from being vein-drained (and possibly killed!) by vampires in the last novel. Delilah spends much of her time in this book thinking about Ric or feeling guilty that she had to give Cocaine/Snow a kiss (the Brimstone Kiss) in order to get his help saving Ric, particularly at the beginning when the mystery is unfolding. As soon as Ric seems to be on the mend, Delilah's pulled into dealing with both the underground Egyptian vampires who tried to kill Ric as well as some ungodly monster killing the werewolves. Failure equals dead Delilah, so she's instantly juggling far too many issues and is scrambling to keep everybody happy while she tries to figure out what's going on. That's some nice tension, and it only gets worse for Delilah the more things go on. But her new found silver medium abilities come in handy and she manages to extricate herself from danger and get the werewolf Mafia don off her back. Overall, this is a good read and I enjoyed it very much. I think it suffers a bit from the middle novel syndrome, though, as there's a lot of stuff that is wrappign up loose ends and relationship thoughts that frequently had my eyes glazing over. These do serve to develop the relationship with the out-of-it Ric while he's recovering--sort of keeping him on screen; so I understand why the author chose to put them in the book. I didn't hate them, but they were too much for me. Just a bit too much, though. What I felt the need for, and frankly think the novel is less for lacking, is a true reappearance of Snow. We see very little of him, and I would have liked more of a role for him in this story's development. In this book, Snow is more like the knitter's yarn that she isn't using at the moment: attached and jumping across the stiches behind the scenes, but essentially doing nothing except being there until needed in some future book. If you haven't read this series and you like urban fantasy, you will probably like this one. Delilah Street and teh world she lives in are really cool. I am looking forward to the next book in the series and to learning who and what Delilah is.

exhilarating urban fantasy

It has been years since the Millennium Revelation when all the creatures of myth and legend rose up from the shadows to reveal themselves to humanity. Delilah Street comes to Las Vegas from Wichita to work as a paranormal investigator. Deep below the Karnak Hotel lives a vast Egyptian vampire sect ruled by two Pharaohs; humans are bred and brought to them as food. Delilah rescued her lover Rick Montoya by giving him the Resurrection Kiss to restore his life. After Rick was in a coma, Delilah finds she has the ability to kiss away from his back the scars he received while he was a slave for a master criminal.. He wakes up and remembers what happened to him and is determined to free the other humans held by the Egyptian vampires. Before they leave on their quest, the werewolf Cesar Cicerau summons Delilah to remove the ghost of the daughter he killed who haunts his hotel. A supernatural creature is stalking the hotel killing anyone who gets in the way. Delilah is clueless how to rid the hotel of this deadly fiend and the ghost while below ground the vampires are dining on humans. The latest Street Paranormal Investigator thriller combines horror, mystery, romance, and sex into an exhilarating urban fantasy that puts the sin in Sin City. With plenty of twists, VAMPIRE SUNRISE is a roller coaster doing loops with each spin accelerating the ride. Readers will enjoy following the clues, surreal and mundane, as Carole Nelson Douglas lets Midnight Louie catch a cat nap while Delilah does the sleuthing above and under the streets of Las Vegas. Harriet Klausner