DAVID & AIMÉE THURLO. Blood Retribution. Forge, hardcover, September 2004. Paperback reprint: Tor, August 2005.

    — Pale Death. Forge, September 2005. Paperback reprint: Tor, August 2007.

   Lee Nez, a New Mexico state trooper and a vampire, returns in two follow-ups to Second Sunrise (Forge, 2002). In both these novels, he’s still working with F.B.I. Agent Diane Lopez, who knows his “true nature,” but is happy to live with it and her obvious attraction (unrequited) to him.

   In Blood Retribution Lee is still tracked by a vampire assassin from his past even as he and Diane are deeply involved in a case of silver smugglers who are also Navajo skinwalkers.

   In Pale Death a vampire escapes from confinement where the government has been conducting experiments on him, and, maddened by his ordeal, goes on a killing spree.

   I’ve not found any vampire series that gets my whole-hearted endorsement since the early entries in the Anita Blake series. I’ve stayed with this series so far, but its modest virtues are wearing thin and if the publisher doesn’t pull the plug, I may.

    [UPDATE] 09-08.   I did.