I read these books by Tanya Huff:
Blood Price
Blood Trail
Blood Lines
Blood Pact
Blood Debt
Blood Bank
Smoke and Shadows
(there are two additional books called Smoke and Mirrors and Smoke and Ashes which I have not yet read, but may someday)
These is a series set primarily in Toronto, with the Smoke books being set in Vancouver.
Vicki Nelson use to be the best homicide detective in the city of Toronto. But then she got an incurable eye disease that is slowly stealing her vision, forcing her to retire. She now works as a private investigator.
Mike Celluci is her former/sometimes lover, who still serves on the force as a homicide detective. he is sometimes abrasive due to the stress of his job and is sometimes possessive of Vicki.
Henry Fitzroy is the royal bastard of Henry VIII, currently works as a romance novelist, and is a vampire living in Toronto (later Vancouver). He is also cheerfully bisexual, and has Vicki and a street kid named Tony as his lovers.
The three main characters get together to solve crimes. Together they face down demons, the executioner of innocent werewolves (who only want to be left alone on their sheep farm in the Ontario countryside), ancient powerful mummies, and mad scientists. In Vancouver they face down ghosts and invaders from other worlds.
Lots of fun! Good urban fantasy! Henry is great!
Blood Bank has some great short stories set in Henry's past. Particularly cool were the stories set in Regency London, and in Italy, where Henry fights a solitary war against the Inquisition.
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