The Golden Author: Lucius Shepard
	Book Information Publisher: Domain Book Type: Paperback Rating: 4 ISBN-13: 9780553563030 - ISBN-10: 0553563033 Publication Date: 7/1/1993 Pages: 291

In the mid-nineteenth century, vampires gather at Castle Banat, one of their most sprawling and ancient warrens. Their five-hundred-year breeding project has produced the Golden, and they've come to savor her perfect blood in a ceremony that will incidentally make her a member of their family. When the girl is found murdered, the clan's shadowy patriarch calls on the detective Michel Beheim to solve the crime. But Michel has been a vampire for only a short while, and though he was a talented investigator among mortals, he is ill-prepared for the task. Soon he is fighting to survive the bizarre terrors of the labyrinthine castle and the schemes of vampires who guard a secret that may forever alter the world of the undead.