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Tanya Huff, "Bloody Wrapped"
Ace (2007) ISBN: 978-0-441-01522-1
Score: 1

Tony and Henry argue appropriate gifts to give Vicky for her 40th birthday while investigating a kidnapped little girl. Explicitly set six years after Blood Pact, and so also after all the novels (through Smoke and Ashes).

Next Book: Emma Bull, Territory

Tanya Huff, Blood Bank
DAW (2006) ISBN: 0-7564-0392-8
Score: -1

This collection is only available as the second half of the omnibus The Blood Books, vol. 3, though only the Christmas story is new. Only two stories (Manner and Scleratus) do not contain spoilers for Blood Pact. Reading this makes me think it may be impossible to write a good supernatural whodunit short story. Also, that I don't like post-Pact Vicky.

"This Town Ain't Big Enough" 1995
"What Manner of Man" 1996
"The Cards Also Say" 1997
"The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeaka" 1999
"Someone to Share the Night" 2001
"Another Fine Nest" 2002
"Scleratus" 2003
"Critical Analysis" 2006
"So This is Christmas" 2006

Tanya Huff, Smoke and Ashes
DAW (2006) ISBN: 0-7564-0347-2
Score: 1.5

Third Tony Foster book; worth reading for the snarky narration, but there's not much else there.

Next Book: Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: the Final Empire

Tanya Huff, Smoke and Mirrors
Daw (2005) ISBN: 075640262X
Score: 2.5

Second Tony Foster book (a spinoff of the Vicky Nelson (Blood) series). Tony is still a production assistant for a cheezy TV show, which is shooting a haunted house episode in a house that really is haunted. The ghosts are nicer than the ones in Blood Debt, but the thing that created them is nasty. Lots of good lines, but the characters were a bit weak.

Next Book: Lynn Flewelling, Hidden Warrior