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American Vampire Paperback – March 25 2015

by J. R. Rain (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,697 ratings
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Mother, wife, private investigator...vampire. Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire.

Now in AMERICAN VAMPIRE, sequel to VAMPIRE MOON, private investigator Samantha Moon receives a heartbreaking phone call from a very unlikely source: a five-year-old girl who's been missing for three months. Now on the hunt, Samantha will use her considerable resources - including her growing supernatural abilities - to locate the missing girl before it's too late. And as she gets closer and closer to the horrible truth, she receives devastating news on the home front. Now with her world turned upside down, Samantha Moon is forced to make the ultimate choice of life and death.

And through it all, she discovers the identity of one mysterious man...a man she has grown to love.
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  1. Book 3 of 34
    Vampire for Hire
  2. Print length
    222 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  5. Publication date
    March 25 2015
  6. Dimensions
    15.24 x 1.42 x 22.86 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    1508858543
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1508858546
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J.R. Rain is the international bestselling author of over fifty novels, including his popular Samantha Moon and Jim Knighthorse series. His books are published in five languages in twelve countries, and he has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. Please visit him at www.jrrain.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 25 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1508858543
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1508858546
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 331 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.42 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,697 ratings

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J.R. Rain is the author of over 200 novels and counting. He lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest with his dog Blair, aka Blair the Wonder Dog, aka Blair Bear.

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Rose Tauro
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story Telling
Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2018
Great read, love the story! It has mystery, thriller, adventure and more! Theses stories has captured my heart! Excited to read the next books!
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Dallass
3.0 out of 5 stars Devastating choice for Sam.
Reviewed in Australia on July 20, 2020
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Sam’s momma bear instincts kick into overdrive as a little girl calls for Sam’s help, while one of her children develops a life threatening condition. Add into this, a strangely affectionate Danny (creepy sleezoid), the big reveal of Fang’s true identity and Sam and Kingsley’s attraction to each other and you’ve got yourself a momma vampire who doesn’t know which way to turn.

3.75 stars ⭐️
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Annette Brehaut
5.0 out of 5 stars Great as always
Reviewed in France on August 23, 2013
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Love this series. Humour, poignancy great characterisation. I can't wait to see what our fearless detective does next. Will she turn her beloved son??
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Eve Paludan
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting and Compelling Continuation of the Vampire for Hire series -- An American Classic in the Making!
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2011
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In J.R. Rain's tradition of the savvy, snappy dialogue-driven novel, the author's latest installment of the Vampire for Hire series, American Vampire, sucked me in like a vampire's kiss. I was riveted for hours as the mystery unfolded like the revealed deconstruction of an origami bird -- many twists and turns of the plot open to reveal the master craftsmanship of this sometimes blood-soaked, but always poignant and sublime tale that seals it in blood for the reader - this book is delicious. A certain character's identity is revealed and gets Samantha's ardor rising. As they connect at a very core level, the characters are propelled deeper and deeper into the dark mystery and splendor of enduring emotion and the compelling and shocking answers to a lot of reader questions.

With the addition of American Vampire to the repertoire of this series, Vampire for Hire is sure to become *the* American classic vampire series. While other vampire authors tease the reader with what might happen and fail to keep up the level of interest from book to book, J.R. Rain strongly delivers the goods, book after book, and at a pace that increases as the story goes on -- imminent danger to a couple of the story's characters sets up a ticking clock scenario, one of my favorite pacing techniques to read and certainly, a hard one to write. My heart was pounding as I read on and on to see what would happen!

American Vampire is astoundingly intricate, darkly lovely, and utterly compelling. With cameos and outright integration of characters from his other mystery series (not telling who!), the author's cleverness at bringing together the characters from standalone books to solve the mystery in *this* book and created a strong sense of community within the author's own works - in a stroke of sheer genius the author links together his own novels (and a short story!) in a cohesive and unforgettable way. The plotline is brilliant and well executed and holds up from book to book. I want more and more tales of Samantha Moon. Her issues of "living" as a vampire became less black and white as Samantha faces complex decisions that will cause a ripple effect to others, possibly for eternity. Though the ending absolutely ripped at my heartstrings, it created for me, as a reader, the impetus to get the next book as soon as it rolls off the press. (Hurry up, Mr. Rain! Write the next one!)

In this continuing revelation of Samantha Moon's undead life, this Southern California vampire's woes and triumphs bleed the author's talent on every page; the characters' passion and compassion are spilled like drops of blood that are the readers' trail from chapter to chapter, cliffhanger to cliffhanger. Get this book now!

--- Eve Paludan, author of three editions of The Romance Writer's Pink Pages (Prima) and the novel, Letters from David
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Arnold Layne
5.0 out of 5 stars Sam MOON, the Oz Clarke/Jilly Goulden of the blood bank
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2012
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After being left up in the air at the end of #2 as to who Sam's cyber confidant/'lover' was, I would never in a million years expected it to be the first black President of the U S who's name escapes me. Of course it's not but well done JR for keeping your followers in suspense.
As this series progresses, Sam just gets better at what she knows and does best, Vamping with a bit of PI work thrown in and endeavouring to keep her family life intact.
She's now getting particular about the blood she drinks, I'm half expecting her to comment on a fine bouquet with a hint of cinnamon and after taste of honey, (very Oz Clarke style).
Nice to see Jim Knighthorse with more than just a cameo role and what can I say about Aaron.
The more you read the series, the more three dimentional each of the characters become and JR has cleverly kept each one of them on the front burner.
Just as sure as the sun is going to rise in the East, JR manages to conclude with yet another cliff hanger and personal dilemma for Sam.
I long for the day when I can sit at a bar with Sam et al, if she's buying, mines a double - AB Rhesus negative.
Keep writing JR, you are in demand!
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javelinx
4.0 out of 5 stars Gut, aber viel zu kurz
Reviewed in Germany on June 10, 2011
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Samantha Moon, einst normale Ehefrau und Mom, nun Vampir und Privatdetektivin, könnte eigentlich ganz zufrieden sein - sie kann ihre Kinder wieder sehen und braucht ihren Ex-Mann nicht mehr zu fürchten. Die Freude währt nicht lang; ihr Sohn erkrankt schwer, und obwohl die Ärzte alles Erdenkliche tun, schlagen Sams übersinnliche Instinkte Alarm. Als sich ein kleines Mädchen auf ihrem Handy meldet und ihr nur sagen kann, daß ein böser Mann ihrer Mama und ihr schlimme Dinge antut, gehen Sams Mutterinstinkte auf Maximum, und sie bietet der Polizei ihre Hilfe an. Um auch noch etwas zu verdienen, nimmt sie den Auftrag eines Museums an, einen Kunstdiebstahl aufzuklären - von irgendetwas muß man als alleinerziehender Vampir ja schließlich leben...

In Folge 3 erlebt man Sam, die einem schon richtig ans Herz gewachsen ist, nochmals von verschiedenen Seiten. Diesmal wirkt sie nicht so tough, und wie sie über ihren verzweifelten Bemühungen, die kleine Maddie zu finden, fast ihre eigenen Sorgen vergißt, nimmt einen weiter für sie ein. Ihr anderer Auftrag gerät darüber fast in den Hintergrund, sieht man einmal davon ab, daß Sam immer mehr ihre übernatürlichen Instinkte einsetzt, um auch bei ihrer Arbeit zu Ergebnissen zu kommen. Um Maddie schneller finden zu können, sucht sich Sam noch einige Verbündete, die unterschiedlicher und interessanter nicht sein könnten - Jim Knighthorse, einen anderen Detektiv (dem J.R. Rain eine eigene Serie gewidmet hat), Spinoza (noch ein Kollege mit eigener Serie und ungewöhnlicher Vorgeschichte) sowie einen etwas älteren attraktiven Herrn, der Sam merkwürdig bekannt vorkommt - hier erwartet den Leser noch eine Überraschung.

Inmitten dieser ganzen Turbulenzen geht fast unter, daß Sam nun endlich ihren geheimnisvollen Chat-Partner Fang trifft. Wer sich dahinter verbirgt, ist eine große Überraschung, die sich aus den Hinweisen der ersten beiden Folgen nicht erahnen ließ. Sam ist wegen Fang hin- und hergerissen; einerseits ist er sehr attraktiv und an ihr äußerst interessiert, aber andererseits will sich das grenzenlose Vertrauen und die Unbefangenheit, die sie während ihrer Chats genoß, einfach nicht wieder einstellen. Außerdem - was wird aus ihrer sich anbahnenden Romanze zu Kingsley?

Am Ende dieser Folge hat Sam zwar ihre Fälle gelöst; alle anderen Handlugsfäden brechen einfach ab, was einen als Leser schier zur Verzweiflung treibt, weil man lauter Cliffhanger und keinen Abschluß hat. Die Geschichte ist einfach zu kurz, was für die Klasse der Story spricht, aber auch für Frust sorgt. Da wirkt es schon fast wie ein Witz, daß die letzten 20% des eBooks mit allerlei Previews aufgefüllt sind, die man z.T. schon kennt (u.a. Auszüge aus Folge 1, die die meisten schon gelesen haben dürften, und aus VAMPIRE LOVE STORY, das bestimmt viele Vampir-Fans auch schon kennen). Mir wäre da eine längere Geschichte deutlich lieber gewesen, gern auch zum höheren Preis. So muß man wohl oder übel auf Folge 4 warten; für MOON CHILD gibt es leider noch keinen Erscheinungstermin.
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