Blood/Smoke Books in Order

Tanya Huff has written 10 Blood/Smoke books, published between 1991 and 2020. The first book is Blood Price (1991) and the newest is Blood Shot (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1991–2020
Confirmed
10 of 10 titles
Pages on record
3,095 in 9 of 10 books
Reading time
52–77 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,095 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

Blood/Smoke groups 10 Tanya Huff books that share a cast across two runs, the Vicki Nelson novels and the Smoke Trilogy. The listing opens with Blood Price (1991) and closes with Blood Shot (2020), and Huff is the sole credit throughout. Subject headings name fantasy and mystery, vampires, the character Henry Fitzroy, and settings in Toronto and Ontario. Books run to a median of 336 pages, and no new title has appeared since 2020.

How many Blood/Smoke books are there?

Blood/Smoke has 10 books, released between 1991 and 2020.

Blood/Smoke Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Blood/Smoke books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Blood PriceVicki Nelson #11991 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1991272
  2. 2
    Blood TrailVicki Nelson #21992 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1992304
  3. 3
    Blood LinesVicki Nelson #31992 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1992272
  4. 4
    Blood PactVicki Nelson #41993 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1993336
  5. 5
    Blood DebtVicki Nelson #51997 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997336
  6. 6
    Smoke and ShadowsSmoke Trilogy #12004 · 416 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004416
  7. 7
    Smoke and MirrorsSmoke Trilogy #22005 · 416 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005416
  8. 8
    Smoke and AshesSmoke Trilogy #32006 · 407 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006407
  9. 9
    Blood BankVicki Nelson #62008 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008336
  10. 10
    Blood ShotVicki Nelson #72020 · confirmed 3/4
    2020

Do you have to read Blood/Smoke books in order?

You should read the Blood/Smoke books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Blood/Smoke book also stands alone.

Where to start with Blood/Smoke

Start with Blood Price (1991), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Blood/Smoke book?

Blood Shot (2020) is the newest Blood/Smoke book released so far.

Is there a new Blood/Smoke book coming?

No next Blood/Smoke book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Award nominations for Blood/Smoke

Wikidata records 3 nominations for Blood/Smoke. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Locus Award for Best Horror Novel1994Shortlistedfor Blood Pact
  • Locus Award for Best Horror Novel1993Shortlistedfor Blood Lines
  • Locus Award for Best Horror Novel1992Shortlistedfor Blood Price

Blood/Smoke at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Blood/Smoke title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Blood/Smoke books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,095 pages across the 9 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Blood/Smoke books, 5 of 10, were published in the 1990s.

What the Blood/Smoke books are about

6 of the 10 Blood/Smoke books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fantasy is tagged on 5 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Fantasy 5 of 6 books
  • Henry Fitzroy (Fictitious character) 3 of 6 books
  • Vampires 3 of 6 books
  • Canada 2 of 6 books
  • Celluci, mike (fictitious character) 2 of 6 books
  • Fitzroy, henry (fictitious character) 2 of 6 books
  • Mystery & detective 2 of 6 books
  • Nelson, vicki (fictitious character) 2 of 6 books
  • Ontario 2 of 6 books
  • Production and direction 2 of 6 books
  • Television 2 of 6 books
  • Toronto (ont.) 2 of 6 books

More books by Tanya Huff

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.