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Vampir Kindle Edition

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Defence attorney Celeste Maher has seen her share of gruesome cases, but nothing as disturbing as the crime her client, Velimir Radojka, is accused of.After Celeste is unexpectedly arrested for her client’s murder, his boyfriend, Detective Shea Tyrone, gets on the case. Soon, Shea has several problems to deal with: bloodless corpses, street gangs and rumors of human sacrifice.Something connects all this to the Count, and Shea is determined to find out why.Entangled in a web of ritual murders spanning two continents, Shea and Celeste uncover disturbing connections to the crime lord himself... and a Serbian vampire legend.Praise for VAMPIR:I highly recommend this book to all vampire fans. - Gaston Sanders, author "Law & Order meets Dracula in a unique combination." - Brandon Hill, Amazon review

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5 August 2014
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John Reinhard Dizon was born and raised in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, NY. He participated in local and high school sports at Bishop Loughlin MHS, excelling in wrestling, hockey and football. The lead vocalist of the Spoiler and the Ducky Boys, he was a key figure on the Brooklyn rock scene during the Punk Revolution of the 70's. Relocating to San Antonio TX in the 80's, he moonlighted as a pro wrestler while working as a legal assistant. He successfully pursued a BA at UTSA and degrees in Korean martial arts during the 90's. He currently lives in KC MO where he is studying for his MA in English at UMKC. Mr. Dizon has been writing suspense and thriller works for over twenty-five years. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00MG9A4TA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Creativia; 3rd edition (5 August 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1209 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 145 pages

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John Reinhard Dizon was born and raised in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, NY. He participated in local and high school sports at Bishop Loughlin MHS, excelling in wrestling, hockey and football. The lead vocalist of the Spoiler and the Ducky Boys, he was a key figure on the Brooklyn rock scene during the Punk Revolution of the 70's. Relocating to San Antonio TX in the 80's, he moonlighted as a pro wrestler while working as a legal assistant. He successfully pursued a BA at UTSA and degrees in Korean martial arts during the 90's. He currently lives in KC MO where he is studying for his MA in English at UMKC. Mr. Dizon has been writing suspense and thriller works for over twenty-five years.

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Jim Goforth

Intriguing and suspenseful. More than the standard vampire tale.

Reviewed in Australia on 2 March 2014

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Vampires are big business these days, probably eclipsed only by the saturation of zombies in horror fiction.
With `Vampir', John Dizon doesn't take the time worn trail blazed by so many authors who have gone the predictable route of vampire tales. Instead, this is a thriller story which just happens to adeptly weave vampiric lore into its components.
At its heart, `Vampir' revolves around streetwise detective Shea Tyrone on the hunt for a killer who leaves victims' bodies drained of blood and Tyrone's girlfriend, New York attorney Celeste Maher, who finds herself arrested for assisting detained man Velimir Radojka.
Naturally all these events are inextricably entwined, for there is far more to Radojka than meets the eye, but without revealing too much this is a suspense filled work so there is a whole lot more going on than this.
Mix in some Harlem street gangs, some Serbian thugs, a bunch of hardnosed cops, along with a priest with some issues along with a host of other characters and there are multitudes of threads running through this to create the fabric of the story.
It isn't a lengthy story so one can sit down and devour it in one sitting, and with some compelling elements to keep the captivation there and enough splashes of blood and violence to ensure a horror fiend like me stays hooked, `Vampir' is a solid entertaining read.
Filled with intriguing plot developments and unexpected moments `Vampir' is much more than a standard vampire tale and I'd certainly recommend it for anybody who digs thrillers with a liberal splash of the supernatural to it.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2019

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I've given it four stars as I liked the story line but I felt there was something missing. Don't listen to me though give it a go.

Brandon Hill

Law &Order Meets Dracula in a Unique Combination

Reviewed in the United States on 28 January 2016

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Think Law&Order meets Bram Stoker’s Dracula. That was the idea I got from this short, yet intriguing read. As this was my first time delving into Dizon’s varied library of works. As a vampire novel fan, I chose this one, and was met with a rich and dark mystery with twists and turns on par with today’s best detective thrillers combined with dark fantastical elements and skin-crawling horror to appease the appetites of paranormal thriller and mystery fans alike.

The story begins with an arrest of a lawyer named Celeste Maher for the murder of Count Velimir Radojka, a Count fleeing his homeland of Serbia: a murder that bafflingly left no body and no weapon behind. What unfolds in this fast-paced read, through the experience of seasoned police officers, terrified priests, and the denizens of New York’s crime ridden inner cities in the backdrop of a brewing gang war, is a tale of bizzarre disappearances, occult killings, and the existence of an ageless, unspeakable horror that has chosen its newest hunting ground.

Vampir through slow first steps, and a story that picked up its pace to breakneck speed near its close, evoked the feelings of gothic horror, yet woven in seamlessly with crime drama in the gritty streets: a surprisingly good mix of genres that kept me turning pages to see everything to its unnerving end. It was somewhat unusual for me in the realm of reading ease, as I did not seem to realize that the story was a flashback to most of the events mentioned within. But I freely admit that this may be chalked up to the fast pace of the story combined with its brevity, but despite its short length (around 100 pages in all), Dizon wastes no words, and keeps the story moving forward, never letting up. Each conversation, every predicament and turn of events comes to an ultimate meaning, especially the beginning. But of course, that would be telling.

Perhaps this brevity and briskness contains the story’s chief weakness. Though the characters are given a surprising amount of depth for such a short read, to me, it still wasn’t enough to keep myself emotionally invested in them. However, I freely admit that this may be a matter of taste, as the detective genre is not one that I gravitate to. The only exception to this, I felt, was Celeste, whose sympathy for a particular character came off as utterly confounding, and which I puzzled over until the end, when things came fully together. In addition to this, one other issue seemed to give me reason to pause, and this was Dizon’s use of names and nicknames for some of the minor charaters. For how commonplace some of these names might be (though I had never known anyone named such, I felt that choices such as “Iced Tea,” “Will Smith,” and “Beyoncee” were a bit lacking in creativity. But in the grand scheme of things, this is merely a nitpick, and did little to subtract from my enjoyment of the story. But it did make me raise an eyebrow more than a few times. Otherwise, the story was pleasing in how well it was put together, for how brief a read it was.

Rounding things up, I have to say that for a person who is as picky about books –vampire novels especially- as I am, I was glad that I got the chance to read Vampir. Uniqueness is the coin of the realm in such a saturated subgenre. Other authors often use a new angle of the vampire mythos to carry the uniqueness of their respective stories, but Dizon has brought about a uniqueness in both the fusion of two genres into something truly unique, in combination with his tweaks to the mythos as well, yet still holding on to the classic elements that made vampire stories so attractive in the first place. This altogether gave me a pleasant surprise as well as a story that held me for a gritty, suspenseful, and dark ride, as vampire stories were meant to be. Fans of cop dramas and the classic vampire mythos in nearly its purest form will do well to pick this one up.

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Iain

Swarovski love interests they've become

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 June 2017

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Oh hell yeah!
Vampires should be scary, evil monsters. Not the soppy, Swarovski love interests they've become. Dizon gets this. Charming, evil and pitiless, this is a vampire as they should be. Add in less than squeaky clean NYPD and you have an easy read that is great fun with some real chills in there. Could be better if fleshed out a bit more, let the tension simmer, but over all, great fun and well worth checking out.

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Excellent read, nice twist...

Reviewed in the United States on 13 September 2014

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John Reinhard Dizon has written a great vampire book with an excellent twist to the Stoker version of Dracula. His villain, Count Radojka, is a direct descendant of Vlad III, The Impaler (otherwise known as Dracula), and with the help of a young lady lawyer, he sells his castle and moves to America.
The plot thickens as corpses inevitably start turning up and our hero, detective Shea, investigates.
I won't give away all of the exciting details, but just let it be said... you don't want to miss out on this superbly written book. There are sequels in the making and I, for one, intend on reading these, also.
I highly recommend this book to all vampire fans and anyone looking for a good scare.

Gaston Sanders, Author

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Theresa

Love this vampire tale

Reviewed in the United States on 7 March 2014

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I'm a huge fan of vampire books and movies and this one was different from the norm, but was a real page turner. I love the way Shea and Celeste were such an integral part of the story and that it did not turn out to be just another horror story put in a book. There was a really well thought out storyline and well developed characters that play together so intricately to weave this book together into a quick fascinating read.
This is the first book I have read from this author but I will be back more.

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