Blood Games

core novel 2014 Chicagoland Vampires

Record

First published	2014
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.22 (12,892 ratings, collected 2026-09-09)
First-edition ISBN	9780451415202
Internal chronology	10

Synopsis

Blood Games has Merit, Sentinel of Cadogan House, hunting a serial killer stalking Chicago, whose crime scenes are marked by uncanny magical traces left behind at each murder. As the body count climbs, the case forces an uneasy cooperation between the city's vampires and its human authorities, despite the underlying distrust between them. Merit, drawing on the alliances she has built across Chicago's supernatural community during her time as Cadogan House's protector, races to identify the killer's methods and motive before the pattern claims another victim, aware that her own visibility as a vampire investigator may put her within the killer's reach as well.

Where it sits

• Universe: Chicagoland Vampires
• Series: Chicagoland Vampires core; position 10 of 13 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Chloe Neill

Notes

• From the series record (Chicagoland Vampires): 13-novel main continuity; a spin-off sequence (Heirs of Chicagoland, starting Wild Hunger, 2018) follows a different protagonist and is kept out of Core for now.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

• Reading order, within the series Chicagoland Vampires: position 10 of 13: previous Wild Things (2014) · next Dark Debt (2015)

Sources

• Penguin Random House — Chicagoland Vampires listings
• Chloe Neill's official site — Chicagoland Vampires novels
• Wikipedia — Chloe Neill
• https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311924/blood-games-by-chloe-neill/

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