title: Shadows in Their Blood
author:  Marian Babson 
description: In this humdrum mystery, Babson ( Encore Murder ) unsuccessfully attempts to evoke a creepy, B-movie ambience by casting her series regulars in a second-rate Dracula remake. Trixie Dolan, the somewhat scatterbrained narrator, and Evangeline Sinclair, her peevish cohort, were once stars of the silver screen; now they're forced to share a suite in a drafty, gloomy English castle that doubles as the vampire flick's set. The accommodations are most unpleasant: bats fly through the halls, the director intentionally serves only red wine and other blood-colored fare at mealtimes and his mistress has the obligatory unusual wound on her throat. Finally, after a pompous actor is stabbed to death, Trixie and Evangeline themselves are suspected of being immortal bloodsuckers. For all Trixie's breathless complaints about the unbearable tension, this mystery remains sluggish. Thin characterization dulls the interest, and such conspicuously odd players as a wax-museum curator and a disfigured former screen idol seem more benign than threatening. Even with the stock pieces in place, Babson creates neither foreboding mood nor hair-raising drama. <BR>Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Atonement
  
  Bound by Shadows Series
  
  By Imani L Hawkins
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright
  
  Atonement by Imani L Hawkins
  
  Published by Pyramese Publishing Group
  
  [www.imanilhawkins.com](http://www.nikolehawkins.com)
  
  ©2018 Imani L Hawkins
  
  All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form
  without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright
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  author@imanilhawkins.com
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons living or dead, businesses, companies, events,
  or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
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  Dedication and Acknowledgements
  
  It is a rare thing when you find a group of people who believe in you so fully
  they’d do anything to see you succeed. It’s even more rare when you can call
  those people family.
  
  I’d like to thank my husba