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Jane Yellowrock #0.7
Signatures of the Dead
Jane Yellowrock, her best friend Molly Trueblood, an earth witch, police detective Paul "Brax" Braxton, and Molly's husband Evan go after a blood-family of rogue-vampires who killed a local family.
(In the anthologies Strange Brew, Have Stakes, Will Travel, and Cat o'Nine Tales.)
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
(In the anthologies Strange Brew, Have Stakes, Will Travel, and Cat o'Nine Tales.)
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
1 pages, Audible Audio
First published December 10, 2013
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Faith Hunter
93 books5,723 followersFaith Hunter's Junkyard Cats novella series is available in Audible, eBook, and "ridiculously expensive" (her words) trade paperback books at this time.
Faith's Jane Yellowrock series is a dark urban fantasy. Jane is a full blooded Cherokee skinwalker and hunter of rogue-vampires in a world of weres, witches, vampires, and other supernats. 15 books and several compilations of shorts
The Soulwood series is a dark-urban fantasy / paranormal police procedural /para-thriller series featuring Nell Nicholson Ingram, an earth magic user and Special gent of PsyLED. 6 books
Her Rogue Mage novels—Bloodring, Seraphs, Host, and the RPG Rogue Mage—feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic alternate reality.
Faith is a full time writer who finally hired a housekeeper when the dust bunnies multiplied, She bakes homemade bread and loves to cook.
Faith researches in great detail, and tries most everything her characters do. Research led to her life’s passions – jewelry making, orchids, Japanese maples, bones, travel, white-water kayaking, and writing.
Faith loves orchids. Her favorite time of year is when several are blooming. Pictures can be seen at her FaceBook page. And yes, she collects bones and skulls. She has a fox, cat, dog, cow skull, goat, a boar skull, a deer skull, (that is, unfortunately, falling apart) and the jawbone of an ass. Her prize skull is a mountain lion (legally purchased from a US tannery) hit by a car in the wild.
Her latest love is Japanese maples, and she has managed to collect over thirty.
She and her husband RV, traveling to whitewater rivers to kayak all over the Southeast. Whitewater Kayaking is her very favorite sport, discovered when she was researching her (Gwen Hunter) mystery book, Rapid Descent. She took a lesson and—after a bout of panic attacks from fear of being upside down trapped in a boat—discovered she loved the sport.
Under other pen names, notably, Gwen Hunter, she writes action adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. As Gwen, she is a winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for Fresh Talent in 1995 in the UK, and won a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award in 2008. As Faith, her books have been on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists, been nominated for various awards and won an Audie Award with Khristine Hvam, among other awards. Under all her pen names, she has more than 40 books, anthologies, and complications in print in 30 countries.
For more, including a list of her books, see www.faithhunter.net , www.gwenhunter.com . To keep up with her daily, join her fan pages at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/official.fait... and see her website blog at
www.faithhunter.net
Faith's Jane Yellowrock series is a dark urban fantasy. Jane is a full blooded Cherokee skinwalker and hunter of rogue-vampires in a world of weres, witches, vampires, and other supernats. 15 books and several compilations of shorts
The Soulwood series is a dark-urban fantasy / paranormal police procedural /para-thriller series featuring Nell Nicholson Ingram, an earth magic user and Special gent of PsyLED. 6 books
Her Rogue Mage novels—Bloodring, Seraphs, Host, and the RPG Rogue Mage—feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic alternate reality.
Faith is a full time writer who finally hired a housekeeper when the dust bunnies multiplied, She bakes homemade bread and loves to cook.
Faith researches in great detail, and tries most everything her characters do. Research led to her life’s passions – jewelry making, orchids, Japanese maples, bones, travel, white-water kayaking, and writing.
Faith loves orchids. Her favorite time of year is when several are blooming. Pictures can be seen at her FaceBook page. And yes, she collects bones and skulls. She has a fox, cat, dog, cow skull, goat, a boar skull, a deer skull, (that is, unfortunately, falling apart) and the jawbone of an ass. Her prize skull is a mountain lion (legally purchased from a US tannery) hit by a car in the wild.
Her latest love is Japanese maples, and she has managed to collect over thirty.
She and her husband RV, traveling to whitewater rivers to kayak all over the Southeast. Whitewater Kayaking is her very favorite sport, discovered when she was researching her (Gwen Hunter) mystery book, Rapid Descent. She took a lesson and—after a bout of panic attacks from fear of being upside down trapped in a boat—discovered she loved the sport.
Under other pen names, notably, Gwen Hunter, she writes action adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. As Gwen, she is a winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for Fresh Talent in 1995 in the UK, and won a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award in 2008. As Faith, her books have been on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists, been nominated for various awards and won an Audie Award with Khristine Hvam, among other awards. Under all her pen names, she has more than 40 books, anthologies, and complications in print in 30 countries.
For more, including a list of her books, see www.faithhunter.net , www.gwenhunter.com . To keep up with her daily, join her fan pages at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/official.fait... and see her website blog at
www.faithhunter.net
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February 23, 2017
*** 4 ***
This was quite intense for as short as this story was. Molly's point of view once again. This is the hunting of a rogue Vampire family who are killing folks in their town. I remember reading the first full novel of the series and this is the job Jane was still not fully recovered from when she came down to New Orleans. Pretty cool:-)
This was quite intense for as short as this story was. Molly's point of view once again. This is the hunting of a rogue Vampire family who are killing folks in their town. I remember reading the first full novel of the series and this is the job Jane was still not fully recovered from when she came down to New Orleans. Pretty cool:-)
July 2, 2018
Wow, this was an action packed novella.
Molly, her husband, Jane, and Paul Braxton, a veteran police officer are hunting down some really terrible vampires. They are newly turned, insane, and preying on the weak and most recently a whole family - yes, very tragic and upsetting.
The story is from Molly's POV - she is a powerful earth witch who will do anything to protect her family and friends. It is a great introduction to the dark world in which these books are set, and also the not dark aspects - the friendships between Jane, Molly, Evan, Molly's sisters, etc. It is also obvious the vampire attacks are not commonplace but a shocking occurrence. I definitely can't wait to learn more!
Molly, her husband, Jane, and Paul Braxton, a veteran police officer are hunting down some really terrible vampires. They are newly turned, insane, and preying on the weak and most recently a whole family - yes, very tragic and upsetting.
The story is from Molly's POV - she is a powerful earth witch who will do anything to protect her family and friends. It is a great introduction to the dark world in which these books are set, and also the not dark aspects - the friendships between Jane, Molly, Evan, Molly's sisters, etc. It is also obvious the vampire attacks are not commonplace but a shocking occurrence. I definitely can't wait to learn more!
April 15, 2017
This short story is referenced many times in the beginning of the series. And because of that I expected a little bit more out of it. Still it a good one and it also shows that Apparently she had the aptitude for it from the start :) Maybe because it's the opposite of her original gift and that made it easier to "switch"?
I liked the cop and kind of hoped that this wouldn't be the story in which he dies because I wanted to see more of him. Jane was awesome as always and the moment was hilarious.
As with most of the shorts I really missed having Beast's POV and to me that detracts from the story.
I liked the cop and kind of hoped that this wouldn't be the story in which he dies because I wanted to see more of him. Jane was awesome as always and the moment was hilarious.
As with most of the shorts I really missed having Beast's POV and to me that detracts from the story.
May 27, 2015
The story of when Jane Yellowrock was outed to the world as something more than human which is alluded to in many of the full length books. Jane, together with Molly, hunt a pack of vampires who have gone feral. Told from the perspective of Molly.
There are so many of these Jane Yellowrock short stories. Maybe 20 of them. Some are great and some are just OK. But with them being sold individually, in collections for Kindle and in an audiobook collection, it's kind of hard to keep up with them. They really need to be better organised.
There are so many of these Jane Yellowrock short stories. Maybe 20 of them. Some are great and some are just OK. But with them being sold individually, in collections for Kindle and in an audiobook collection, it's kind of hard to keep up with them. They really need to be better organised.
October 20, 2019
A short story packed with action!
When a family is brutally killed in the area, Molly's skills as an earth witch are required to find out if the killers were vampires, like the police believe.
Molly is reluctant to involve herself, worrying about her two babies at home, but she can't in good conscience sit back and do nothing, knowing that more families could die because of her inaction.
That's how she ends up walking the crime scene along with Jane and Brax, and discovers that .
Very engaging story despite its short length. According to the author's recommended reading order, Skinwalker comes next, but I'll probably continue with the short story "Make it Snappy", found in the anthology Urban Enemies, that takes place after WeSa and the Lumber King.
Previous book reviews:
✦ Haints (Jane Yellowrock, #0.6) ~ ★★★★ (19/09/2019)
✦ Kits (Jane Yellowrock 0.5) ~ ★★★★ (19/09/2019)
✦ Cat Tats (Jane Yellowrock, #0.4) ~ ★★★ (19/09/2019)
✦ The Early Years (Jane Yellowrock, #0.2) ~ ★★★ (30/10/2018)
✦ WeSa and the Lumber King (Jane Yellowrock, #0.1) ~ ★★★ (30/10/2018)
When a family is brutally killed in the area, Molly's skills as an earth witch are required to find out if the killers were vampires, like the police believe.
Molly is reluctant to involve herself, worrying about her two babies at home, but she can't in good conscience sit back and do nothing, knowing that more families could die because of her inaction.
That's how she ends up walking the crime scene along with Jane and Brax, and discovers that .
Very engaging story despite its short length. According to the author's recommended reading order, Skinwalker comes next, but I'll probably continue with the short story "Make it Snappy", found in the anthology Urban Enemies, that takes place after WeSa and the Lumber King.
Previous book reviews:
✦ Haints (Jane Yellowrock, #0.6) ~ ★★★★ (19/09/2019)
✦ Kits (Jane Yellowrock 0.5) ~ ★★★★ (19/09/2019)
✦ Cat Tats (Jane Yellowrock, #0.4) ~ ★★★ (19/09/2019)
✦ The Early Years (Jane Yellowrock, #0.2) ~ ★★★ (30/10/2018)
✦ WeSa and the Lumber King (Jane Yellowrock, #0.1) ~ ★★★ (30/10/2018)
January 26, 2021
I'm glad we got to read this short story, as it is one of the moments most mentioned in the main story. This is the story about the rogue vamp-family that made Jane famous as a vampire killer.
Also, we got to see it from Molly's POV, which is interesting.
The story is hardcore and kickass and is a clearly defining moment in Jane's life
Also, we got to see it from Molly's POV, which is interesting.
The story is hardcore and kickass and is a clearly defining moment in Jane's life
October 29, 2023
4.5 stars
You know that job Jane had prior to hitting New Orleans? The one where she nearly got her throat ripped out? The one where some kid got her on video with her eyes glowing?
This is that story.
It's not pretty. But dealing with rogue vampires rarely is.
Good thing we have Jane.
You know that job Jane had prior to hitting New Orleans? The one where she nearly got her throat ripped out? The one where some kid got her on video with her eyes glowing?
This is that story.
It's not pretty. But dealing with rogue vampires rarely is.
Good thing we have Jane.
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September 28, 2018I read this as party of the anthology Have Stakes, Will Travel
Jane Yellowrock is not the main character, her friend Molly is. Very, very gruesome. Child rape and murder. ***
Jane Yellowrock is not the main character, her friend Molly is. Very, very gruesome. Child rape and murder. ***
January 4, 2023
Molly's POV. I liked this one a lot. This was the incident with the vampires in the mines mentioned in the first book, Skinwalker.
January 8, 2023
Nice bit of backstory between Jane and Molly.
February 14, 2017
This is the much referred to story of Molly and Jane's trip to some caves in the first book. Sad story, though it has a more-or-less happy ending.
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April 14, 2016Read 2009-2010 in Strange Brew.
Reread April 2015 in Blood in Her Veins: Nineteen Stories from the World of Jane Yellowrock.
Reread April 2015 in Blood in Her Veins: Nineteen Stories from the World of Jane Yellowrock.
August 23, 2024
Collected in Strange Brew. Despite her and her husband Evan's misgivings, Earth Witch Molly decides to head to the McCarley House, site of a recent massacre, to assist Detective Brax and his friend Jane Yellowrock by using her gift to "read" the place.
She pretty much sees a re-enactment of the dirty, disgusting rape murder by 7 perpetrators - enough to help Detective Brax and Jane Yellowrock to start tracking the murderers. The two women, Molly and Jane, work well together as both have an unspoken understanding.
We learn Jane is a rare full Cherokee Indian with power and a healthy distrust of all kinds of authority (especially police). She is also a shifter, but not just a regular shifter, a very special skinwalker type of shifter, one I've not seen before in fantasy, so I'm understandably irretrievably intrigued.
The story has a ton of action, it was entertaining, emotional and scary. We don't know very much about Jane yet, but she a certified bad ass who can hold her own and I enjoy strong female leads in urban fantasy so I'm probably going to pick up this series.
She pretty much sees a re-enactment of the dirty, disgusting rape murder by 7 perpetrators - enough to help Detective Brax and Jane Yellowrock to start tracking the murderers. The two women, Molly and Jane, work well together as both have an unspoken understanding.
We learn Jane is a rare full Cherokee Indian with power and a healthy distrust of all kinds of authority (especially police). She is also a shifter, but not just a regular shifter, a very special skinwalker type of shifter, one I've not seen before in fantasy, so I'm understandably irretrievably intrigued.
The story has a ton of action, it was entertaining, emotional and scary. We don't know very much about Jane yet, but she a certified bad ass who can hold her own and I enjoy strong female leads in urban fantasy so I'm probably going to pick up this series.
January 22, 2019
Signatures of the Dead is an audio short story from the Jane Yellowrock series written by Faith Hunter and read by Khristine Hvam. It takes prior to Skinwalker, the first novel, and centers on an investigation that involves Jane Yellowrock, Molly Trueblood, Evan Trueblood (her husband), and Police Detective Paul "Brax" Braxton. It was first written and collected in Strange Brew and later in Have Stake, Will Travel anthology.
Signatures of the Dead centers on an investigation and hunting of a family of rouge vampires, who has been recently turned and are feeding on the weak. It is up to Jane Yellowrock, the Truebloods, and Police Detective Paul Braxton to find them and eliminate them. Told from the perspective of Molly Trueblood, we see through her eyes her determination to protect her family.
Signatures of the Dead is written rather well. It is a surprisingly action-packed story told within a short story and is rather dark. It represented the core series rather well in darkness and flow. As always, it is rather nice to read scenes between Jane Yellowrock and Molly Trueblood as theirs is one of my favorite relationships in the core series.
All in all, Signatures of the Dead is a well written, but more importantly, well portrayed short story about one of the earlier missions of Jane Yellowrock.
Signatures of the Dead centers on an investigation and hunting of a family of rouge vampires, who has been recently turned and are feeding on the weak. It is up to Jane Yellowrock, the Truebloods, and Police Detective Paul Braxton to find them and eliminate them. Told from the perspective of Molly Trueblood, we see through her eyes her determination to protect her family.
Signatures of the Dead is written rather well. It is a surprisingly action-packed story told within a short story and is rather dark. It represented the core series rather well in darkness and flow. As always, it is rather nice to read scenes between Jane Yellowrock and Molly Trueblood as theirs is one of my favorite relationships in the core series.
All in all, Signatures of the Dead is a well written, but more importantly, well portrayed short story about one of the earlier missions of Jane Yellowrock.
May 15, 2017
A quiet Appalachian town is rocked by the gruesome murder and partial consumption of a young family of 5. The local sheriff knows enough to know when he's out of his league and requests the aid of a stay-at-home young mother, who's also a genetic elemental earth witch. Her sensitivity to life, death and undeath could just provide the clues needed to stop the murders.
The witchcraft here is second to the settings and landscape, emerging organically. Molly, the earth witch, and her sisters, witches of other elements and a couple non-witch sisters, have their clear limitations to their knowledge and to their abilities.
Molly also receives aid from a Native American shapeshifter, Jane Yellowrock--the hero of a series by this author.
There are many ways a tale about witches, a shapeshifter, and a rogue pack of vampires could go very wrong. But allowing the landscape and the local culture to center the story makes this very strong.
This tale is highly recommended. It appears in Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations edited by Paula Guran.
The witchcraft here is second to the settings and landscape, emerging organically. Molly, the earth witch, and her sisters, witches of other elements and a couple non-witch sisters, have their clear limitations to their knowledge and to their abilities.
Molly also receives aid from a Native American shapeshifter, Jane Yellowrock--the hero of a series by this author.
There are many ways a tale about witches, a shapeshifter, and a rogue pack of vampires could go very wrong. But allowing the landscape and the local culture to center the story makes this very strong.
This tale is highly recommended. It appears in Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations edited by Paula Guran.
July 26, 2022
Darker story, but interesting premise. Witches apparently link to a particular element. So this one earth witch has worked with a police officer to help him find criminals as she has a link to the dead, and discovers a rabid nest of vampires.
Apparently vampires are crazy things for the first ten years or so but this group are all mad as hatters and murdering everything in sight.
Gruesome bits. Should have trigger warnings for all sorts of things.
Apparently vampires are crazy things for the first ten years or so but this group are all mad as hatters and murdering everything in sight.
Gruesome bits. Should have trigger warnings for all sorts of things.
June 13, 2021
It was amazing to have another story from the point of view of Molly. This one really shows more of the vampire hunting side of Jane rather than the side that needed friends and a way to protect those she cared about. It was a fun yet devastating story of death, destruction and sacrifice! Yet at the same time courage and friendship!
May 2, 2023
Short, fast, emotional, and the ending was gut wrenching 😩😩😩😩 These novellas are something else and toldfrom Molly’s point of view. Molly is fiercely protective of her family and Katie is now one of hers.
August 13, 2024
It is interesting to see a story through the eyes of someone other than the main character of a series. I probably would have enjoyed this more if I had read any of the books in the series. I never felt a connection to the characters, so the stakes weren't as high for me.
June 10, 2017
Really enjoying this series....
May 25, 2018
Mini Jane Yellowrock story, interesting read, more insight on the witches as they track down rogue vampires
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 3, 2019
One of the weaker installments of these short stories, though nice to spend a little time with Molly and Evan Trueblood.
October 15, 2019
In Cat o' Nine Tales. Rogue vamp hunt.
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January 25, 2021published in the anthology Blood in Her Veins: Nineteen Stories from the World of Jane Yellowrock
September 10, 2021
audio read in cat o nine tales
December 4, 2021
Nice short story from Molly. 🙂
February 8, 2022
So good I read it twice. I liked the change in POV in this wonderful world that Ms Hunter has created
March 16, 2022
Good story just like the other short stories.
April 17, 2022
We finally get to hear the story about the mine and Brax
May 31, 2022
I enjoyed this one. It was a little longer and a complete story. It helps us understand the relationship between Molly and Jane. It is a perfect lead into Skinwalker.
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