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Smoke and mirrors

Title:

Smoke and mirrors

Author:

Huff, Tanya, author.

Series:

Smoke series ;

Series Number:

Summary:

When Tony and his TV crew find themselves shooting in an actual haunted house, all hell threatens to break loose. Locked into the house overnight, can Tony keep the diabolical controling spirit from turning the crew against one another in an orgy of blood?

Physical Description:

374 p. ; 24 cm.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Subject Term:

Vampires -- Fiction.

Television -- Production and direction -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

DAW Books,

Publication Date:

2005

ISBN:

9780756402624

Publication Information:

New York : DAW Books, c2005.

Call Number:

HUFF

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607001889628	Adult Fiction	HUFF	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Summary

Tony and the cast and staff of Darkest Night , a syndicated TV series about a vampire detective, find themselves shooting an episode in an actual haunted house.

Author Notes

Tanya Huff was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. After graduating high school, she served in the Canadian Naval Reserve as a cook from 1975 to 1979. She received a B.A.A. in radio and television arts from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. After graduating college, she worked at Bakka, Canada's oldest SF and fantasy book store, from 1985 to 1992. She is the author of more than 20 books including Blood Price, Blood Trail, Blood Lines, Blood Pact, and Blood Debt.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Poor Tony Foster with his burgeoning wizardly powers. No matter how many times he and his undead ex-boyfriend battle malevolent spirits to save the cast and crew of Darkest Night (the most popular vampire detective TV series in North America), everyone else on the set regards him as only a lowly production assistant. Having fended off evil shadows from another world (in 2004's Smoke and Shadows), Tony now has to contend with filming haunted house scenes in a house that's actually haunted. When all the doors slam shut, he finds himself trapped with ghosts repeatedly reenacting their deaths, his painfully cynical and egotistical colleagues and-worst of all-the boss's bratty daughters. Huff delights in simultaneously bringing out the worst and best of her characters, and she's really found her stride here. Underneath the supernatural trappings and the nonstop wisecracks is a whodunit full of devious plot twists and genuine character development, and the fine-tuned mockery of (and occasional indulgence in) horror novel/film clich?s adds spice. Little time is spent explaining things for new readers, so this is best enjoyed after catching up with the previous volume. Agent, Joshua Bilmes. (June 7) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Library Journal Review

Ex-street kid Tony Foster and Henry Fitzroy, an Elizabethan-era vampire, have relocated to Vancouver, where Tony, now employed by a film company, discovers madness and mayhem in a house rented for filming a ghost story that, unknown to the cast and crew, may in fact be home to a number of restless phantoms. Huff's sequel to Smoke and Shadows develops the relationship of Henry, Tony, and their human-and superhuman-friends and enemies in a tale of supernatural suspense and mystery certain to appeal to the author's many fans. The author of the "Blood" novels has once again proven herself a master of urban fantasy. A good selection for most antasy collections, particularly where there is demand for vampire fiction. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.