Blood Books
#7163.79 in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 5 books Status Complete 1991–1997 Reading commitment Medium Tanya Huff Last reviewed 2026-09-04
Overview
Blood Books is a completed five-book urban-fantasy sequence by Tanya Huff, a new author to this canon. A former Toronto police detective turned private investigator, Vicki Nelson, partners with a centuries-old vampire to solve supernatural crimes across the city. The series -- Blood Price (1991), Blood Trail (1992), Blood Lines (1993), Blood Pact (1993), and Blood Debt (1997) -- helped establish the now-common urban-fantasy pairing of a hard-boiled human investigator and a vampire partner well before the subgenre's mainstream boom of the 2000s. Huff builds the cases around Toronto-specific settings and supernatural threats ranging from mummies to werewolves, keeping Vicki's police background central to how she investigates rather than treating her simply as a romantic lead. The series was later adapted into the Canadian television series Blood Ties, broadening its audience beyond the original novels.
Urban fantasy · For Adult
Core Canon: Reading Order (5 works) counts toward ranking
Blood Books Tanya Huff
| Work | Year | Internal chron. | Canon | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Blood Price | 1991 | 1 | core | 3.76 (11,034 ratings) |
 | Blood Trail | 1992 | 2 | core | 3.82 (6,966 ratings) |
 | Blood Lines | 1993 | 3 | core | 3.79 (5,893 ratings) |
 | Blood Pact | 1993 | 4 | core | 3.84 (5,240 ratings) |
 | Blood Debt | 1997 | 5 | core | 3.79 (4,387 ratings) |
A completed urban-fantasy sequence following a former police detective turned private investigator who partners with a vampire in modern Toronto.
Quick answers
- How many books are in Blood Books? Blood Books's Core Canon is 5 books.
- What is the reading order for Blood Books? Publication order, starting with Blood Price. Full list and years in the Core Canon table above.
- Is Blood Books finished? Complete (1991–1997).
- How much reading does Blood Books take? Medium reading commitment (estimated from 5 Core Canon books · ~1,808 pages).
- How is Blood Books ranked? #716 in this site's official ranking, based on 33,520 reader ratings across 5 Core Canon books. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #716?
Ranked #716 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 3.79 across 5 core books.
- A smaller readership (33,520 ratings), so the score carries less weight of numbers.
- Remarkably consistent across the whole series: all 5 rated core books rate within 0.08 of each other.
- Less than 0.01 behind #715, The Tales of Alvin Maker (a finer tie-break level decides the order).
- Below the top-10 average of 4.45.
Why explore this universe?
Rated · 5 books · Complete · 34k ratings · Ranks #716 overall
Good choice if you want a moderate-length urban fantasy universe that's already finished, so there's no wait for the next book.
Reading order
Publication order (5 Core Canon books)
- Blood Price (1991)
- Blood Trail (1992)
- Blood Lines (1993)
- Blood Pact (1993)
- Blood Debt (1997)
Documented internal/story chronology is recorded for every Core Canon book here, and matches publication order exactly, with no divergence to show separately.
Awards (verified)
- No awards found for this universe.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 3.79 across 33,520 ratings on 5 Core Canon books. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: Admit Blood Books (Tanya Huff) accepted 2026-09-04
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
Last reviewed: 2026-09-04
Rule: Core Canon is the complete five-book sequence: Blood Price (1991), Blood Trail (1992), Blood Lines (1993), Blood Pact (1993), and Blood Debt (1997), all published by DAW Books.