Hit List - Hardcover

K. Hamilton, Laurell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0755352599 ISBN 13: 9780755352593

Publisher: Headline, 2011

Synopsis

A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect monsters" are involved and have called in Anita Blake and Edward US Marshals who really know their monsters to catch the killer. But some monsters are very real. The Harlequin have been the bogeymen of the vampire world for more than a thousand years; they are a secret so dark that even to speak their name can earn you a death sentence. Now they are here in America hunting weretigers and human police. The Harlequin serve the Mother of All Darkness the first vampire. She was supposed to be dead but only her body was destroyed. Now she needs a new one and she's decided that Anita Blake's is the body she wants. Edward thinks the serial killings are a trap to lure Anita closer to the most dangerous vampire they've ever hunted. The vampires call Edward "Death and Anita the Executioner but Mommy Darkest is coming to kill one, and possess the other, and she doesn't care how many others have to die along the way.

About this title

Review:

"As punchy as her first foray...Hamilton goes back to basics and delivers a sleek, hard-boiled page-turner." "Those who like a plot that moves at the pace of a runaway locomotive will be delighted with this 20th installment of the Anita Blake series."

Book Description:

A dark and thrilling novel from the New York Times bestselling author featuring her vampire-hunting heroine Anita Blake

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0755352599
• ISBN 13: 9780755352593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320