Because You Were Nice to Me: One of the zombies in Blood Pact, whom they call number nine, is very attached to Caroline, the only researcher who treats him with a kind of affection you'd give to a pet.Artificial Zombie: The ones in Blood Pact are reanimated by a combination of engineered bacteria and implanted brain wave patterns.Aristocrats Are Evil: Resoundingly averted with Henry, who has a healthy amount of noblesss oblige.

Arbitrary Skepticism: Henry is a vampire who is over four hundred years old, and has recently fought a mummy that is over three thousand years old, and yet he doubts the ability of an embalmed corpse to get up and walk around, which is exactly what is happening.

The truth is he enjoys protecting the people of 'his' domain.

Antihero: Henry keeps trying to portray himself as one and that he only kills to protect his territory.

They impale the poor woman with a sharpened hockey stick.and are horrified when the body doesn't turn to dust at dawn.

A night nurse is accosted by her drunken neighbors, who have gotten caught up in the vampire frenzy and decide that a woman they never see by day must be a vampire.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of people think it's a vampire (including Henry, for a while), but it's actually a demon.

Toronto is hit with a series of murders in which all the blood is drained from the victims.

Actually Not a Vampire: Used two ways in Blood Price, neither remotely funny:.

Blood Shot (2020), another collection of stories that includes crossovers with Smoke and Shadows.

There are a few flashback stories involving Henry, but most take place after the final book in the series.

Blood Bank (2008), a collection of stories featuring the main characters.

The Blood series has a followup trilogy, Smoke and Shadows, following Tony and Henry's lives in Vancouver.

The fourth main character is Tony Foster, a homeless kid that Vicki recruits to help give Henry blood, and ends up involved with Henry as well. Then Vicki ends up meeting Friendly Neighborhood Vampire Henry Fitzroy and partners with/dates/donates blood to him on a regular basis. Her off-and-on boyfriend/ex-partner Mike Celluci is not terribly thrilled with her choice of lifestyle. The heroine is Defective Detective Vicki Nelson, whose retinitis pigmentosa forced her to quit being a cop and become an Occult Detective. It takes place in Toronto, except for the last book being in Vancouver. The Blood series by Tanya Huff is a set of five books (and plenty of short stories) that was eventually adapted into the television show Blood Ties (2007).

Blood Price by Tanya Huff