The Vampire with the Dragon Tattoo

Meet Spinoza. Ex-cop. Recovering alcoholic. Relentless private investigator specializing in missing persons-and haunted by the loss of his own family. When an elderly woman walks into his shabby Los Angeles office begging him to find her missing step-granddaughter, Spinoza is prepared for the usual runaway case.

Except the girl in question believes she's a vampire slayer. And she's been missing for a week.

Gladys, the frantic grandmother, says Veronica didn't just read about hunting vampires-...