

Official Couple: Lee and Diane start dating in book two.Lee also married once and outlived his wife. Mayfly–December Romance: Lee and Diane.The vampire who turned him during World War II was a Nazi operative, and Lee's a good cop. I Hate You, Vampire Dad: But not for the usual reasons.He broke out of the lab and went berserk.

Escaped from the Lab: In Pale Death Lee and Diane discover that the vampire they're hunting was living peacefully as a human, but was captured by a Government Conspiracy and experimented on.Lee can handle the light as long as he wears UV protection (sunblock and sunglasses) but it's not a death sentence if those are compromised. Avenging the Villain: The motive of the vamps targeting Lee in Blood Retribution, since he killed their leader, and his creator, in the previous book.She's an FBI Special Agent so it's kind of a job requirement. The Lee Nez novels provide examples of the following tropes: They go undercover in Glover's trailer park and the case gets complicated when they learn that his neighbors once took the law into their own hands and beat him to death, only to have him come Back from the Dead. Determined to nail him to the wall for good this time, they enlist the FBI, and Diane calls in Lee. Surrogate Evil: All-around-scumbag Newton Glover is suspected by the Albuquerque police department of kidnapping a teenage boy for a child pornography ring.They get around the question of keeping the secret by calling it a Serial Killer who thinks he's a vampire. They're unmistakably the work of a vampire, but she knows for a fact that Lee prefers his blood chilled in a refrigerator. Pale Death: Diane investigates a string of gruesome homicides in and around the town of Shiprock.To further complicate matters Lee is being stalked by a pair of vampire assassins enraged at him for killing their leader. Blood Retribution: Lee and Diane investigate a gang of gem smugglers who killed a cop.Second Sunrise: As if Lee's problems with a pack of skinwalkers aren't enough, he suspects the vampire who turned him during World War II is back, and he has the FBI, in the form of Special Agent Diane Lopez, breathing down his neck because of the missing plutonium said vamp is after.The Lee Nez series is a Vampire Detective Series by David and Aimée Thurlo, starring a Navajo vampire who works as a New Mexico state trooper.
