Serpents & Scoundrels — Wayne Zurl

A past informant leads Chief Sam Jenkins and Sergeant Stan Rose to a partially buried corpse in a forest clearing once used by marijuana growers. At the crime scene, the medical examiner states a fact and makes a conjecture -- the dead man was killed elsewhere, and the killer was a vampire. The investigation leads Jenkins to a group of religious fundamentalists. Jenkins has to figure out a way to reach the murderer in the group. [A Novelette]