Search - Already Dead (Joe Pitt, Bk 1)

First in the Joe Pitt paranormal mystery series, with Joe being a Rogue Vampyre, trying to stay out of the clutches of various warring Vampyre Clans. A renegade, badass Vampyre with an un-stellar past and an attitude that I loved. When a new threat, brain-eating zombies, comes on the scene, Joe tries to track down the carrier of the Zombie virus at the same time as he's trying to locate the missing daughter of a highly-connected woman--highly connected, as in, friend of the Coalition Vampyre clan, though not a Vamp herself. Sounds like trouble, right? Right. I loved this book and found it exceedingly difficult to put down. Definitely not your typical "paranormal" book--no chick lit here, and much more badass than Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series.

I really liked the way this book handled its vampires and zombies bringing a more scientific explanation to the table especially explaining the traditional shambling stumbling idiot zombie in a logical way.

That being said I was a bit disappointed in this book. As a non-romance paranormal and mystery junkie I was hoping this was going to be a bit more of a hard boiled noirish Harry Dresden/John Taylor type of book. Sadly it didn't meet that expectation. The vampyric aspect of Joe came across merely as a plot device and hindrance and while it did help create tension for the story and problems for Joe it almost seemed like any "disease" could have filled that bill.

I think the biggest telling point is less than a month after reading it I had to really stop and think about how the book ended and who the villain turned out to be.

I want to like Joe and there are a few interesting subplot points that I would love to get answers too so I will probably try the second book, but I don't know if I'll make it through the whole series.

This is the second time I've tried to read this book. No go. Reads like bad old crime Noir. Could be it's just not my think.

I enjoy a good vampire read (plenty of Anne Rice, Twilight, etc..) and I have loved all the other Charlie Huston books I've read (Caught Stealing, A Dangerous Man, Shotgun Rule, etc..) But this one I just could not get into. I tried a couple times and finally gave up.

Another great installment of the disturbing and well written saga of Joe Pitt, the virus infected "vampire" and the clans of NY.

Fist book in the Joe Pitt Series. Great Vampire Book. Very Intense!!! Love This Book!!!!