Vampire Voles

Welkin Weasels #5

by Garry Kilworth

The city of Muggidrear is crawling with vampires! Montagu Sylver, weasel detective, decides to go to the source of the problem - Slattland, across the sea. He is determined to stake the problem for once and for all! Followed by Welkin's police chief Falshed, now demoted to a plain-pelt detective, Monty and his companions run into all sorts of scrapes in this hilarious new adventure that follows on from the action in GASLIGHT GEEZERS but can be read totally separately as a stand-alone novel.

Genres: Fantasy, Animals, Anthropomorphic, Animal Fiction, Vampires

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 25, 2011

About the author

Garry Douglas Kilworth is a historical novelist who also published sci-fi, fantasy, and juvenile fiction.

Kilworth is a graduate of King's College London. He was previously a science fiction author, having published one hundred twenty short stories and seventy novels.

Reviews

[David Ellery · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally, at the fifth time of asking, a Welkin Weasels book that's mostly consistent. There's a relative minimum of padding, hand-holding and digressions, the plot stays focused and the pace decent throughout, there are only a couple of dubious moments, and nothing on the order of those in prior books, ensuring a much more even tone, and very few typographical errors. On the minus side, the treatment of female characters remains somewhat erratic, and even slightly self-contradictory, and moreover there's less imagination and energy, the humour and references at a distinctly lower level, the cast, barring some of the antagonists, not as engaging. It lacks spark, and the dearth of warmth and heart that's a feature of the series is a bit more noticeable for it.

A decently enjoyable Dracula-pastiche of an adventure, but likely to leave you a little unfulfilled.

[Christine · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked this up a few years ago when I was in Montreal. I read Watership Down at such a young age, any animal tale in novel form attracts me.

It's not a bad book, even for adults. Kilworth sets a Weasel society in an alternate Victorian London. The book is basically a weasel Sherlock Holmes. There are many references to pop culture and Victorian writers/artists that an adult, but no child, would get.