Death stalks the fog-shrouded streets of London. A mysterious killer is hunting down vampire familiars, driving stakes through their hearts, and cutting off their heads for good measure. Nestled in his padded, bug-infested cell at Seward’s Sanatorium for the Criminally Insane, R.M. Renfield, familiar prime to Count Dracula, imagines he is safe from the scourge… Until he awakens standing over the body of his cell mate with the murder weapon in hand. Accused of the crime and unable to prove his innocence, he escapes the asylum and resumes the life he knew before Dracula. Before madness. The life of Inspector Renfield of Scotland Yard. Venturing into the seedy underbelly of the city, he hunts for the murderer amid a myriad of suspects. Is it the beautiful folklorist researching the legend of vampires? Her brutish and enigmatic chauffeur and bodyguard? A reporter obsessed with Dracula’s reign of terror seven years earlier? Or the cult of vampire hunters who revere the inexplicably missing Abraham Van Helsing? As the body count of familiars serving London’s vampires continues to climb, Renfield, with the reluctant assistance of his brutal master Dracula and the villainous intellect of Mr. Hyde, must put aside the safety net of madness and reclaim his former glory as a brilliant detective to track down the killer before more innocent souls are lost. International bestselling author J. Kent Holloway spins a web of mystery that’s one part The Hound of the Baskervilles, one part Dracula, and a whole lot of The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, which will propel you on a spine-tingling journey into a world you only think you know.
Author
International bestselling author Kent Holloway lives on death. Literally. With more than twenty-two years’ experience in forensic death investigations, he’s seen it all. Experienced the worst that life has to give and never let it dim his sense of wonder or humor. Now, he brings all this experience, along with a zeal for uncovering the folklore and superstitions of death, to the written page as author of mysteries, forensic crime fiction, and paranormal thrillers! He is the author of six paranormal thrillers, including his highly acclaimed Ezekiel Crane series, as well as his forensic thriller, CLEAN EXIT. He’s also written his first installment of the Baron Tombstone adventures—a series that steps directly into the world of the dead—in the shared pirate world series, Tattered Sails. Death investigations isn’t his only foray into the darker side of life. He's also an adjunct professor of criminal justice at St. Johns River State College in Florida. He’s worked as a private investigator and a newspaper reporter covering the crime beat in Florida. When he’s not writing, designing book covers, or investigating deaths, he spends much of his spare time researching folklore, as well as investigating ghosts and cryptids throughout northeast Florida. Find Kent at his website: www.kenthollowayonline.com.
