title: Dying Bites (The Bloodhound Files, Book 1)
author:  DD Barant 
description: Starred Review. This engrossing debut adds another captivating protagonist to the urban fantasy ranks. FBI profiler Jace Valchek is abruptly yanked into a parallel universe where vampires, werewolves and golems are 99% of the population. The supernatural beings aren't affected by mental or physical disease, so they're baffled by the emergence of a crazed human killer. Vampire NSA chief David Cassius hopes Jace, who has special skills in dealing with mentally deranged criminals, can catch the Impaler. Until she succeeds, he won't let her go back home. As Jace investigates the Free Human Resistance, a terrorist group, she starts to wonder which side she wants to be on. Barant's well-developed world offers intriguing enhancements to mythology and history. Jace is remarkable, strong-willed and smart, and she sets an unstoppable pace. Look for the Bloodhound Files to go far. <i>(July)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  All-Out Raves for
  
  **THE BLOODHOUND FILES**
  
  "Snappy writing, a page-turning story, and fresh world-building make _Dying
  Bites_ a satisfying meal of a book."
  
  \--Kelley Armstrong,
  
  _New York Times_ bestselling author of
  
  _Men of the Otherworld_ and _The Awakening_
  
  " _Dying Bites_ is wacky, unpredictable, fresh, and amazing. I would kill to
  write as well as DD Barant. Seriously."
  
  \--Nancy Holder, author of _Pretty Little Devils_
  
  "This engrossing debut adds another captivating protagonist to the urban
  fantasy ranks. . .Barant's well-developed world offers intriguing enhancements
  to mythology and history. Jace is remarkable, strong-willed, and smart, and
  she sets an unstoppable pace. Look for the Bloodhound Files to go far."
  
  \-- _Publishers Weekly_ (starred review)
  
  "A heroine with plenty of guts, moxie, and a sense of the absurd. [A] fresh
  and original take on urban fantasy. . .Huge kudos to Barant for spicing things
  up with a story t