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Burning Water [Mass Market Paperback]

Mercedes Lackey
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Feb 1989
Dallas Police Detective Mark Valdez isn't just any cop, he's a psychic who knows that the cattle mutilations and torture murders he's been investigating are somehow tied together. He also knows that his meager psychic abilities aren't enough to identify the killers, much less stop them.
Luckily, Mark has an ace up his sleeve: an attractive young romance novelist who happens to be a practicing witch. And not just any witch, either-Diana Tregarde is a Guardian, charged with protecting the Earth and all its creatures.
Using modern science and ancient magics, Diana and Mark discover that they are tailing no ordinary serial killer but the awakened avatar of an Aztec god. Tezcatlipoca and his four beautiful handmaidens are preparing for a great sacrifice that will transform North America into a new Aztec realm.
Diana isn't sure her powers are strong enough to take on those of a risen Aztec god, but she has no choice. As a Guardian, she is sworn to protect mankind, even at the cost of her own life. Luckily, she does not stand alone. Mark Valdez is more than just a cop. And Tezcatlipoca is not the only Aztec god walking in the world.
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  • Mass Market Paperback
  • Publisher: Tor Books (Feb 1989)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0812521048
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812521047
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,820,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Mercedes Lackey's work is as sharp--and scary--as the suddenly revealed fang of a vampire. She'll keep you up long past your bedtime."--Stephen King
"There are days that I think that I would much rather be Diana Tregarde than anyone else...."--"OtherRealms"
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good but Predictable (and Somewhat Scary!) 22 April 1998
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Overactive imagination, beware! While "Burning Water" _was_ predictable, it's easy to forget what's going to happen if you can lose yourself in the book. Be careful, though ... you start seeing things in the shadows after a while.
It's not as terrifying as a horror novel, I suppose, but there's something about the book that is even more chilling than carefully calculated horror, somehow ....
On the whole, the Tregarde books are good -- I especially like Lackey's take on witchcraft (it seems to be a good deal more open-minded than most authors) -- but I'd really like to see more of them. You know what they say about Lackey and trilogies, though, and she _has_ done three Tregardes ....
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is probably the best book in this series and one of the better Lackey books, set in Dallas with a strong plot envolving Aztec mythology and occult detectives this book keeps the reader interested until the end. I was disappointed to learn that there would not be any more books in this series due to poor sales. While I can understand Ms. Lackey's point of view I felt that this was a truly good sereies that deserved more attention than it has recieved.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Mercedes Lacky artfully combines historical fact with riviting occult fiction in this fast-paced horror.
Using the foretold return of the ancient Aztec gods she weaves a tale full of magic, mystisim, and mayhem.
What starts out as a rather standard,if bizarre police investigation of reports of mutilated cattle on local ranches quickly evolves into a race to stop the completion of the sacrifical rituals of the Aztec calander, that become more and more grizzly with each cycle of the moon and culminate in the physical manifestation of the god Burning Water, the destructive deity the Aztecs believed would save them from the conquistadores and wipe the blight of the white man off the face of North America.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Quick, Magical Read
"Burning Water" is the story of police man Mark, who works on a murder case in Dallas that isn't covered in the police manual. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2008 by Louise Amkaer
5.0 out of 5 stars Kudos!
As a fellow Okie, I applaud you for a job well done!I've never enjoyed a book so full of thrills and chills!
Published on 16 July 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars The Diana Tregarde Investigations are awesome!!!
Diana Tregarde seems to be a similar type of heroine to Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake. Diana is a petite witch with a lot of power. Read more
Published on 30 April 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars Burning Water, Children of the Night, Born to Run
I LOVE Mercedes Lackey, I've read all of her books. I especially love the Oath_____ books and the Diana Tregarde books!! THEY. ARE. THE. BEST!!!!!!
Published on 24 April 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars The Water's Pretty Hot
This is a great book. I'm a fan of the Diana Tregarde series and this is just another proof of how excellent this series is. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars The Return of Historical Fiction
This was a great book for those with a strong stomach. The
author artfully combines the rituals of the ancient Indians
with modern-day society. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 1997
4.0 out of 5 stars Smouldering Water
Pretty Good
New Idea, but a pretty predictable plot. You can easily figure out the entire plot of the book from the first few chapters,especilally if you have read much else... Read more
Published on 21 Nov 1996
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