Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Novels) - Softcover

K. Hamilton, Laurell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755355334 ISBN 13: 9780755355334

Publisher: Headline, 2010

Synopsis

'When the monsters are involved, it's never just one dead body. One way or another the dead multiply.'

First, there were the dead in the graveyard, two hundred years dead. I'd been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in.

Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I'd never seen before.

And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. I knew what that meant of course. It didn't take a degree in preternatural studies to figure out that something was wrong. And I was right in the middle of it. My name is Anita Blake. Welcome to my life ...

About this title

Review:

In some of Laurell Hamilton's excellent supernatural thrillers about Anita Blake, the Vampire Executioner, we forget that Anita raises the dead for a living, and that her involvements with the undead, the temporarily furry and the St Louis Police Department are only a sideline. In Bloody Bones, she is hired to raise the victims of some long-ago mass slaughter, a pile of dismembered arms and legs and skulls and ribs, and identify them. Her employers want to build a luxury hotel on ground claimed by the Bouvier clan as an old burial ground--and the Bouviers are not entirely human... Add to the mix murders too brutal to be obviously vampiric, a feud between Anita's vampire date Jean-Claude and the older vampire who rules the neighbouring countryside--and we have the sort of complicated mess of intrigue which Hamilton always handles so well. Anita is an interesting character because so torn between what she is, a necromancer with the power to compel the dead, and a person far too accomplished at violence, and her religious beliefs, as well as between her attraction to Jean-Claude and her love for the werewolf Richard. She is a fascinating series character because she changes so much.--Roz Kaveney

Review:

aHighly-charged, well-written, no holds-barreda] jaw-dropping.a
a"Denver Post"
aBreathtaking.a
a"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
aWhat "The Da Vinci Code" did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.a
a"USA Today"

?Highly-charged, well-written, no holds-barred? jaw-dropping.?
?"Denver Post"

?Breathtaking.?
?"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"

?What "The Da Vinci Code" did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.?

?"USA Today"

Highly-charged, well-written, no holds-barred jaw-dropping. Denver Post
Breathtaking. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel. USA Today"

"Highly-charged, well-written, no holds-barred... jaw-dropping."--Denver Post

"Breathtaking."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel."--USA Today

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0755355334
• ISBN 13: 9780755355334
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464