Rating: 4.75⭐️

I just love this series and group of characters. Everything about this is just amazing. New to me authors, Heather G. Harris and Jilleen Dolbeare have created a wonderful character in transplanted Londoner and newly created (not by consent) vampire, Elizabeth Octavia ‘But everyone calls me Bunny.’ Barrington. 

She’s escaped to the paranormal town of Portlock, Alaska as the assistant to the Sheriff there, to start a new life and, well, hide from her old one. And she’s brought along her rescue German Shepherd, Fluffy, whose outsize character is immediately endearing.

We’re introduced to a multitude of different personalities and paranormal types of beings as Bunny , Gunnar Johansen, the supernatural chief of police, the Nomo Sheriff’s Department, and Sidnee Gunnar’s mermaid daytime assistant.  

The story has great cases, investigative storylines, which gives us further insight into the town’s people, its history and the beginning of Bunny’s real commitment to Portlock and her new home.

I’ll admit I love this series and universe so much I read through books 1 through three in one day. Was getting ready to read The Vampire and the Case of the Cursed Canine, which is book 4 when I realized it was almost 3am. And my dog was saying enough, turn the lights off.

The character and relationship development is outstanding. The dynamic between the characters is so good and real that it’s hard to remember that these are paranormal people.

Seven books! Be still my heart! Way to make this reader incredibly happy. 

This is an absolute winner of a book and series. If you’re a lover of the paranormal world, mystery novels, and even a bit of a fated mates slow burn romance, here’s just the series for you. 

Highly recommended. 

Love the cover. I mean they had me at Fluffy. 

Cover design by Christian Bentulan. Published by Hellhound Press Limited.”

The Portlock Paranormal Detective series:

The Vampire and the Case of her Dastardly Death, a prequel.

The Vampire and the Case of the Wayward Werewolf, Book 1.

The Vampire and the Case of the Secretive Siren, Book 2.

The Vampire and the Case of the Baleful Banshee, Book 3.

The Vampire and the Case of the Cursed Canine, Book 4.

The Vampire and the Case of the Perilous Poltergiest, Book 5.

The Vampire and the Case of the Cozy Christmas, Book 5.5.

The Vampire and the Case of the Hellacious Hag #6

The Vampire and the Case of the Malevolent Mermaid #7 – July 3,2025

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        The Vampire and the Case of the Wayward Werewolf (The Portlock Paranormal Detective Series Book 1)

    

Blurb 

Someone paid the vampire king’s creepy son to turn me into one of the bitey undead. I’m not hanging about to find out who or why. The vampires want me to stay with them for one hundred years of indentured servitude but I have this thing about following orders so I ran from the streets of London to the wilds of Alaska.

I have an eidetic memory and a can-do attitude. I can-do anything to get away from the vampire king. So when the Sheriff of Portlock, a hidden paranormal town, invites me to be his assistant, I say sure thing. It beats servitude hands down.

At first things seem ideal in Portlock, I make a new friend and even get asked out on a date. But the truth is, there are secrets aplenty. The paranormal council are at each other’s throats, figuratively of course. But then someone rips out a werewolf’s throat, literally this time.

I need to work with the Sheriff to find the killer, before he strikes again. We just need to winnow through werewolf pack issues, council politics, and more suspects than you can shake a stake at. Simple.

Portlock is a melting pot of witches, necromancers, vampires and shifters, but things are starting to boil over. I hope I don’t get burnt.

Dive into this fast-paced urban fantasy series if you love mystery, humour, found family and a slow-burn romance.

Don’t miss the other Portlock Paranormal adventures!

The Vampire and the Case of her Dastardly Death – Prequel

The Vampire and the Case of the Wayward Werewolf – Book 1

The Vampire and the Case of the Secretive Siren – Book 2

The Vampire and the Case of the Baleful Banshee – Book 3

The Vampire and the Case of the Cursed Canine – Book 4

• Publisher: Hellhound Press Limited (March 1, 2024)
• Publication date: March 1, 2024
• Language: English
• Print length: 529 pages