Paperback, 480 pages
English language
Published Oct. 9, 2012 by Titan Books.
Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda - his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Geneviève. Finding herself caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city, Kate discovers that she is not the only one on his trail...
More fanfiction-y than I expected, although rarely tipping over into eyerolling territory. The conclusion is perhaps the strongest part, doesn't quite pull everything together but does put a bow on it all. I'm mildly curious to see where future books go.
