Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press. (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - This award-winning Mexican novelist offers his unique update to the vampire legend: "Where is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? . . In this sly sequel [to Dracula], Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than a postmodern riff on "the vampire craze," Vlad is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture's ways of dealing with death. . . Vlad has need of both a lawyer and a real-estate agent in order to establish his new kingdom, and Yves Navarro and his wife Asuncion fit the bill nicely. Having recently lost a son, might they not welcome the chance to see their remaining child live forever? More importantly, are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned?" Translated from the Spanish by Ethan Shaskan Bumas and Alejandro Branger. Small format. 122 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-1564787798.

Boston: Little Brown, (2005.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, an academic thriller, went quickly into many later printings. From the cover: "Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history. The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known - and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula." SIGNED on the title page. Promotional postcard laid in. vii, 647 pp.