Blood Price by Huff Tanya

Author:Huff, Tanya [Huff, Tanya]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Ontario, Celluci, Mass Murderers, Fiction, Vicki (Fictitious Character), Vampires - Ontario - Toronto, Fitzroy, Mike (Fictitious Character), Women Private Investigators, Police - Ontario - Toronto, Occult Fiction, Horror Fiction, Toronto, Toronto (Ont.), Fantasy Fiction, Mass Murderers - Ontario - Toronto, Henry (Fictitious Character), Nelson, Women Private Investigators - Ontario - Toronto, Vampires, Contemporary, General, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780756405014
Publisher: DAW
Published: 1991-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Nine

"And repeating our top story, the strange deaths in the Toronto area continue with the seventh body, found early this morning by police on Foxrun Avenue, just south of the Oakdale Golf and Country Club.

Homicide investigators at the site have confirmed only that death occurred after a violent blow to the throat and will not say if this victim had also been drained of blood. Police are withholding the victim's name pending notification of the next of kin.

"Weather for southernOntario will be colder than the seasonal norm and. ..."

Vicki stretched out an arm and switched off the radio then lay for a moment on the weight bench, listening to the sounds of the city, convincing herself that the rumble of a distant truck was not the tread of a thousand clawed feet and that a high-pitched keening to the east was only a siren.

"So far, no demonic hordes." She reached down and pressed her palm against the parquet floor." Touch wood." It looked like she still had time to find the bastard dealing out these deaths and break every bone in. ...

Cutting off the thought, she stood and went into the living room where she'd taped the map of the city to the wall. Vengeance was all very well, but dwelling on it obscured the more pressing problem: finding the scum.

The first six deaths had occurred on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights, a week apart. This Thursday night killing broke the pattern. Squinting at the map, Vicki circled Foxrun Avenue. She had no idea how this fit geographically or if it fit geographically or if it broke that pattern to pieces as well.

She pushed her glasses up her nose and forced her teeth to unclench.

Henry could play connect the dots this evening when he woke; she had other leads to follow.

If Henry was right, and the person calling the demon was receiving stolen goods for each life, those goods had to have been reported missing. Find the goods, find the demon-caller. Find the demon-caller, stop the killing. It was all very simple; she only had to check every occurrence report in the city for the last three weeks and pull out unusual and unexplained thefts.

"Which," she sighed," should only take me about two years." And at that, two years of searching was infinitely better than another second sitting on her ass, helpless. Trouble was, with eighteen divisions in Metro, where did she start?

She tapped the map with her pencil. The morning reports at 31 Division would have details on the death the radio hadn't released. Details Henry might need to pin down the next site, the next killing. Also, the two lines from the previous six deaths intersected in 31 Division. That might be meaningless now, but it was still a place to begin.

Clutching the bag containing the four doughnuts-two strawberry jelly and two chocolate glazed-in one hand and the bag with the accompanying coffees in the other, Vicki lowered her head and rounded the corner onto Nor-finch Drive. With

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