Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

By Christopher Moore

From the bestselling author of A Dirty Job, this “deft and funny” (The New York Times Book Review) first book of the Bloodsucking Fiends series is a vampire romance like none other following a recently turned vampire and the small-town midwesterner who becomes her unlikely ally in the search to find a blood-draining killer.

Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up in an alley with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. What she doesn’t realize is that this is only the beginning.

Tommy has just arrived in San Francisco, full of dreams of becoming the next literary wunderkind. Instead he ends up working at the local Safeway and playing frozen turkey bowling with the motley night crew. But one night Tommy meets the strikingly beautiful Jody on one of her nocturnal visits to the supermarket and gets the surprise of his life when the casual date they make to meet the next night (after sunset, of course) triggers the start of a relationship destined to span eternity.

All seems to be going well—until the blood-drained bodies begin piling up around the city. Now it’s up to Jody and Tommy to find the perpetrator behind the attacks before one of them becomes the next victim.

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Published Mar 18, 2008

304 pages

Average rating: 6.59

37 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

it’schar
Feb 08, 2026
8/10 stars
My introduction to Moore. Best decision I ever made was absentmindedly picking up this book.
Amanda Brown
Dec 04, 2023
6/10 stars
It's been a long time since an audiobook made me laugh so much. Moore is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.

In Bloodsucking Fiends, Jody, a pretty redhead living in San Francisco, is attacked and turned into a vampire. Her attacker leaves her under a dumpster with a boatload of cash and Jody has to figure things out on her own. She realizes that she needs someone to help her during the day. Enter Indiana boy, C. Thomas Flood.

When bodies start turning up everywhere Jody and Tommy go, the police get involved and things get hairy - in a very comical way.

Thankfully, there are no sparkling vampires in this world.
Lavender Loves
Aug 30, 2023
8/10 stars
I never thought I would be giving a vampire love story a 4.5 star rating, but here we are.

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