Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs (a Mercy Thompson novel: 2). 292 p.
This is the requisite vampire-heavy novel in the Mercy Thompson series. In this setting, the vampires run a protection ring in Mercy's town; if you don't pay the vampires, something bad will happen to your business. Since Mercy can't afford to pay, she fixes the vehicles for the vampire group (called a "seethe"). Which is how she knows Stephen, who's friendlier than your normal vampire (and has painted his van to look like The Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo). He asks for her help to stop a sorcerer who is killing people, because the vampires don't care enough to stop the killer. I like this author's take on vampires; they're amoral at best and evil at worst, not sexy bad boys/girls that would be fun to date (as other urban fantasy series tend to portray them).
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