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Murder of a Vampire

A Redmond and Haze Mystery, Book 17

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Murder of a Vampire

By: Irina Shapiro
Narrated by: Alex Lee
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When the body of a young woman is exhumed from unconsecrated ground—her remains marked by signs of a deviant burial—Jason and Daniel are drawn into a case steeped in fear and folklore. Whispers of the occult and tales of vampires, which had recently gripped London society, force them to confront the strange and the supernatural.

But the more they uncover about the victim, the more the bizarre precautions taken with her body seem misplaced. Was she truly a vampire, a witch, or merely a tragic figure whose brutal death and macabre burial were meant to stoke fear—or silence the curious?

As Jason and Daniel dig deeper, they find themselves tangled in a web of secrets someone is desperate to keep hidden. And if they ignore the warnings, one of them may be next in the sights of a deadly vampire hunter.

©2025 Irina Shapiro (P)2025 Irina Shapiro Fantasy Historical Mystery Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal Witchcraft

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********listening like you would binge on your favourite TV series or movie franchise ************************you won't regret it.

A binge worthy series.

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The more I listen to Irina Shapiro’s stories the more I’m in awe of the author’s skill to bring the perpetrators to their days of reckoning. Many years ago I used to read John Dickson Carr novels and sometimes I never managed to peg the criminals. This author is on a par with those tales. However, these days I have the luxury of listening and being able to do other chores at the same time. Audiobooks are a great boon for me now on to the next title.

I don’t know how the author does it…

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This review is mostly a reflection of the series as a whole. These books were nice to listen to in the background as they arent particularly heavy or hard to follow. However I do not think they were amazing.

Regarding the actual stories and writing: I liked how easy it was to follow on, and that there were red herrings to make it more difficult. However, I felt the 'pregnant victim' trope was over used in this series, and the grand reveals of the perpetrator didnt feel all that show stopping. I liked that as the series went on it became more difficult to guess the perpetrator. However I felt Jasons character often prevented me from being immersed in the stories - his character felt much more like the authors fanfic of her dream man (e.g having no character flaws, believing in psychics as a man of science, using modern medicine practices even when it didnt make sense as to how he would know these things, the over use of feminism in jasons character [I am a feminist myself, but after a while it ended up just being over used] etc). I also felt like the author only knew the medical term 'rigor mortis' and therefore over used it because that phrase was said a ridiculous amount in this series, even considering autopsies were a part of it.

As for the narrations - I am not quite sure how the narrator ended up with this role. She couldnt do any accents except for her own and the odd ither english accent, and when the main character is american it was quite irritating (eg she kepts adding r's and then not pronouncing the r's in some places like pronouncing lucinda as lucinder, micah as micer etc). also her tone often didnt reflect the mood indicated in the book.

This series was pleasant, but I would not recommend it to anyone else. The author had a nice writing style and I am sure the narrator tried her best.

Pleasant series

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