Caridad Pineiro, Darkness Calls Review

Overall Rating

Darkness Calls
Caridad Pineiro
Silhouette Intimate Moments, Mar 2004, 298 pp.
ISBN: 037327533

Though the link of the last two victims is a nightclub, the serial killer has frightened much of New York City, especially Manhattan. The FBI assigns Agent Diana Reyes to go undercover to ferret out the murderer. Club owner Ryder Latimer meets Diana and they are instantly attracted to one another. However, he is/has been a vampire since the Civil War and knows first hand the fleeting life of mortals and though he desires the cop he wants to end their relationship before it begins so neither gets hurt.

Diana deduces that there is something special and different about Ryder when she begins dreaming of him in gory environments. She wonders if she gave her heart to a killer of women. However, will the truth prove kinder to Diana and if so can they truly make THE PERFECT MIX NOW AND FOREVER?

DARKNESS CALLS is a superb blending of a police procedural with a vampire tale. The story line works because the lead couple, her partner, and several club employees and customers make the Manhattan scene including a vampire and a serial killer seem genuine. Fans who enjoy a well written but different type of novel will want to read Caridad Pineiro's sensational supernatural FBI investigative romance.

Harriet Klausner