Vampire Detective Midnight Series by J.C. Andrijeski

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Nick Midnight, homicide detective, had his heart ripped out, stomped on, destroyed. It nearly killed him.He doesn’t talk about that.Anyway, things will be different in New York. No complications. No kids needing his help. No relationships. None of that human-vampire-psychic crap that got him in trouble in the past, or turned him evil for nearly a century... moreAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Nick Midnight, homicide detective, had his heart ripped out, stomped on, destroyed. It nearly killed him.He doesn’t talk about that.Anyway, things will be different in New York. No complications. No kids needing his help. No relationships. None of that human-vampire-psychic crap that got him in trouble in the past, or turned him evil for nearly a century. He’d toe the line, keep his head down, and do his job for the NYPD, where he works as a Midnight, a vampire who helps humans hunt down murderers.Then Wynter James shows up.A gorgeous, sexy, seer-human hybrid, Wynter treats Nick like she already knows him, like they’ve known one another for years. Nick wants her, bad, but he knows it’s a terrible idea, and not only because they’re not even legally allowed to date.In other words, she’s Nick’s worst nightmare. She’s everything he swore he’d never do again.To make things worse, everything goes sideways with his first big case⏤dead hybrids, a seer kid who needs his help, graffiti that tells the future, a possible conspiracy involving the richest humans in New York.Now he’s going rogue, likely to get himself killed for a woman he just met⏤or end up back on the run, in that dark place he thought he’d finally left behind.VAMPIRE DETECTIVE MIDNIGHT is a gritty, romantic series set in a futuristic, dystopian New York populated by vampires, humans and psychics trying to rebuild their world after a devastating race war nearly obliterated the previous one. Written by USA TODAY and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author, JC Andrijeski, it features vampire homicide detective, Nick Tanaka, who works as a “Midnight,” or vampire in the employ of the human police. less

"Hey... you." The man looked him over again. "You fight? Right?" His lips thinned, his eyes on Nick's chest and arms. "...You look like you do. Frankly, you're the first vampire I've seen in here who's worth the cost of admission."At Nick's blank stare, the man shrugged."A hundred thousand to fight. Twice that, if you win." Nick gets pulled into the world of underground boxing, first to support a friend, and then to help one of the homicide detectives in his precinct solve a case... more"Hey... you." The man looked him over again. "You fight? Right?" His lips thinned, his eyes on Nick's chest and arms. "...You look like you do. Frankly, you're the first vampire I've seen in here who's worth the cost of admission."At Nick's blank stare, the man shrugged."A hundred thousand to fight. Twice that, if you win." Nick gets pulled into the world of underground boxing, first to support a friend, and then to help one of the homicide detectives in his precinct solve a case.Things get personal, fast, when Nick gets drawn into the game himself, and into the sights of the killers, who appear to be targeting vampires, first draining them for blood and venom before extracting their hearts and tossing them outside the dome.A Science Fiction Vampire Detective Novel. Nick is technically still suspended, but that doesn't keep him out of the crosshairs with some of the biggest names in the criminal underground that runs New York Protected Area.Nor does it reassure his new girlfriend, who by now is convinced he has a death wish, or at the very least will do just about anything to avoid talking to her about what's going on between the two of them.VAMPIRE DETECTIVE MIDNIGHT is a new romantic, science fiction and fantasy series set in a futuristic, dystopian New York populated by vampires, humans and psychics trying to rebuild their world after a devastating race war nearly obliterates the previous one.A spinoff of the Quentin Black Mystery series, it features vampire with a past and homicide detective, Naoko "Nick" Tanaka, who gets transferred to the NYPD after a bad incident in Los Angeles forces him to start a new life. Nick works as a "Midnight," or vampire in the employ of the human police department, but when he arrives in New York, he really just wants to be left alone to work, surf, and deal with his immortality in peace.Life, and the residents of New York, clearly have other ideas. less