The Falstaff Vampire Ghosts
Movie star Trinity Scott and rogue vampire Sir John Falstaff wrestle with a crafty demon, a mob of paparazzi and a horde of hungry ghosts—not to mention the food truck owner's zombie brother-in-law. The quest for answers leads to Lost Ranch, an isolated Northern California town with a tragic past and a deadly present.
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Praise for The Falstaff Vampire Ghosts
"Lynne Murray's books evoke time and place—and all the nuances, changes of settings and people, and landscape that go with them—better than any mystery novels I have read. They dance across and subvert the borders between mystery and magic, between mystery and erotica, between mystery and fantasy... Lynne Murray adds something extra to her zestful and riveting repertoire for mystery writing in this novel. Call it a combination of horror-cityscaping, gothic thriller and magical realism with which she manages to charge San Francisco's already eerie, but compelling weather, people and past. Her city—air, fire, water, earth magics—becomes a battleground for forces that may destroy it, and for people tied to those forces who will destroy themselves if they don't break free of them."
—Frannie Zellman, author of The FatLand Trilogy
The Falstaff Vampire Files
Sir John Falstaff, Vampire
For those who love the paranormal or riotous bad boys, meet Sir John Falstaff, Vampire, undead and misbehaving in San Francisco. In The Falstaff Vampire Files, San Francisco psychologist Kris Marlowe doesn't believe in vampires, but when she's attacked by a horde of murderous monsters, she must seek help from Sir John Falstaff, the most famous rogue in history, who once drank ale and now drinks only blood.
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Praise for The Falstaff Vampire Files
"Can you really take Shakespeare and Stoker and create something original? This book does! Although novices to the vampire and vampiric parody fields will find the work a laugh-a-minute, people who have some familiarity with Dracula and works of Shakespeare will find this even more wonderful. Written in Dracula's journal style, but updated, the work name-drops like no one's business, is clever and punny, as well as extremely aware of the meta nature of vampiric literature. In addition, it adds new elements to the vampire mythos."
—Fresh Fiction
"'Bring us your tired, your poor, your correctly bitten humans...'
"It isn't often that popular fiction can be favorably compared with works of great literature, but Lynne Murray has created one that will be. But The Falstaff Vampire Files is far more than just a clever tale. In these pages, Shakespearean strands wind threads that taste like Stoker, then twist 'round bright strings of tragic betrayal, dramatic speech, tender love, and comedic relief in just the right pattern. Falstaff documents three women's discovery of vampires in San Francisco. Instead of following a trite script or relying on cutout characters, however, Ms. Murray's story is refreshingly sweet. The truth is that I could not put it down, and I am certain that these characters will linger in my imagination for the foreseeable future. It's easily the best book I've read this year—or last—and it deserves a prominent spot on every woman's—everyone's—bookshelf."
—Lauri J Owen, author of Fallen Embers & Blowing Embers,
Books One & Two of The Embers Series
"WOW! Clear the decks before you start Lynne Murray's new novel The Falstaff Vampire Files, because you're simply not going to want to put it down. A wonderfully fresh and original take on a genre grown somewhat stale, Murray takes us on a roller coaster ride with a no-nonsense heroine, a peripatetic coffin, and a Falstaffian vampire who is, well, Falstaff. Alternatively funny (who knew there were vampire lawyers? On second thought, it makes perfect sense!) and creepy (with truly scary entities from the spirit world that will have you peeking carefully around the curtains when things go bump in the night), with a little sexy romance thrown in for good measure, you're going to hate to see this story end. But when it does end, do yourself a big favor and check out Murray's earlier novels as well—beginning with Larger Than Death. You won't be disappointed.
—John Miller, author of Jackson Street and Other Soldier Stories (Winner, California Book Award for First Fiction), Coyote Moon & Tropical Heat
"There is ample fun to be found in The Falstaff Vampire Files, which posits a cozy alliance of San Francisco humans and vampires against a far more evil force which equally terrifies them both. Lynne Murray's subtle, generous sense of humor and deft characterization skills result in a cast readers will feel happy having spent time with, particularly the vampire of the title, a refugee from Shakespearean times who turns out, in his own unkempt and boisterous way, to be every lonely single woman's fondest dream."
—Andrew Fox,
author of Fat White Vampire Blues,
Bride of the Fat White Vampire & The Good Humor Man: Or, Calorie 3501
For a FREE Short story that takes place between the two books, check out The Falstaff Vampire Werewolves.
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