The killing dance

Pages: 400
Published: 1997
Language: English

Anita Blake is juggling a complicated romance with both a werewolf and a vampire when a massive bounty is placed on her head. To survive the contract killers closing in, she must team up with the cold-blooded hitman Edward to find out who wants her dead. Between her work as a zombie reanimator and her reputation as a vampire hunter, the list of suspects is dangerously long.

Prose complexity: 4/10

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Love Triangle Morally Grey Survival Anti-Hero

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Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton (born Laurell Kaye Klein, February 19, 1963, in Heber Springs, Arkansas) is an American fantasy and romance writer regarded as one of the founding voices of urban fantasy. She is best known for two long-running series: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, about a professional zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural police consultant in a fictional St. Louis, and Merry Gentry, about a private detective who is also a princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie. Her debut novel...