P.N.Elrod: "Mistress of the bloodthirsty whodunnit!"

P.N. Elrod, creator of both the Jack Fleming & Jonathan Barrett series has her official site over at www.vampwriter.com. I have always been a fan of horror fiction, generally of the H. P. Lovecraft variety. Elrod doesn't write in that style (at least in her series), but rather uses a hard-boiled style in the Jack Fleming and a more romantic/historical fiction one for the Jonathan Barrett novels. Both deal with the lives and adventures of a couple of vampires. Fleming was killed in Prohibition era Chicago and uses his supernatural abilities to solve mysteries and bring justice to wronged individials. Barrett, on the other hand, is involved in the American Revolutionary War, often caught between the fighting where both sides are not above less then gentlemanly tactics. It is revealed in one of the later Fleming books that there is a connection between Barrett & Fleming, but I won't spoil it here. Elrod has also revealed the 'true' fate of Quincey Morris, whom we believed killed in Bram Stoker's DRACULA. It turns out that the Texan had a bit more in common with the Count than we had thought. I recommend both series and the first book in the Quincey Morris series (the only one I've read). If you enjoy vampire fiction I think that Elrod will show you the undead in a different light than Anne Rice, but still fascinating.