Review: Tall, Dark and Vampire – Sara Humphreys

The last person Olivia Hollingsworth expected to see at her Greenwich Village vampire club was her one true love, Doug Paxton—whom she believed to be dead for centuries. Olivia thought she had moved on, but when Doug reappears, her heart knows she’d rather die than lose him again.

Ever since Doug can remember, a red-haired siren has haunted his dreams. He never thought she could be real until he goes to investigate a murder at Olivia’s night club. However, as the bodies keep piling up at her feet, he must fight to prove her innocence—even if it costs him his life…

Series:  Dead in the City #1
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Source: Provided by Publisher
Reviewer: Carin
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Olivia has been a vampire for 300 years she has made the best of it and does what she can to help those who are in need of help. She runs a nightclub in NYC called of all things The Coven and she and her small coven work and live there. She was in love when she was turned and her one true love was killed so the entire time Olivia has been a vampire she has also been celibate. Olivia is also a bit unusual in other ways for instance about 20 years ago she started dreaming very hot, sexy dreams about her love the thing is vampires don’t dream.

Doug is a cop, a homicide detective, he is good at his job but he can never keep a relationship going with any woman. Doug’s problem is that no woman can live up to the smokin’ red-head he has dreamed about forever. When he comes across the woman of his dreams she just happens to be all wrapped up in a murder investigation. What’s a guy to do.

I loved the perfect mix of murder mystery and hot romance that Tall, Dark and Vampire has. We get an awesome paranormal love story that gives us true love with a side of reincarnation. The push/pull of the hero and heroine not only being on different sides of a murder investigation but also mortal/vampire makes for a lot of juicy dilemmas and plot twists, the whole while there is a sick-o out killing young people who have been out dancing at The Coven and Olivia and Doug must stop it. This has just the right mix of humor, sex, suspense, love and duty. Overall a really great read.