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Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series

This series follows Anita Blake, a woman with an unusual profession: she hunts vampires and other supernatural creatures. In a thrilling world where magic is becoming part of everyday reality, Anita must contend with dangerous monsters as well as her own inner demons. The stories are packed with action, romance, and dark secrets that will draw readers in. Fans of the urban fantasy genre will find everything they are looking for here.

The Killing Dance
Bloody Bones
The Lunatic Cafe
Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Guilty Pleasures

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Guilty Pleasures

    • 272 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today

    Guilty Pleasures1
    4.1

  4. The Lunatic Cafe

    • 388 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    Anita has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She's survived a lot, but this love thing may kill her yet.

    The Lunatic Cafe4
    4.0

  5. Bloody Bones

    • 370 pages
    • 13 hours of reading

    First, there were the dead in the graveyard two hundred years dead. I've 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 coure. It didn't take a degree in prenatural 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... ---back cover.

    Bloody Bones5
    4.0

  6. The Killing Dance

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    In the sixth adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Anita Blake’s unique skills make her a wanted woman—by vampire, by werewolf, and by a hit man... Though she’s dating a vampire and a werewolf, Anita is keeping them at arm’s length. Which isn’t easy considering that Jean-Claude is the master vampire of St. Louis and Richard Zeeman is the sexiest junior high school teacher she’s ever seen. Just to complicate Anita’s already messy life, someone has put a price on her head. Love cannot save her this time, so she turns to Edward, hit man extraordinaire for help. But finding the person behind it won’t be easy, because she’s made a lot of enemies—human and otherwise.

    The Killing Dance6
    4.0

  7. Burnt Offerings

    • 392 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    Anita Blake, vampire hunter - sharp, sassy, sexy and good fun, finds she's sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over the town.

    Burnt Offerings7
    4.1

  8. Blue Moon

    • 418 pages
    • 15 hours of reading

    Her former lover had got himself thrown into jail for assaulting a woman. Anita has just a few days to spring Richard and find out who framed him, and why. There's a full moon coming when Richard, a werewolf, will be facing a lot worse.

    Blue Moon8
    4.1

  10. Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    • 656 pages
    • 23 hours of reading

    Hamilton's vampire-hunting Anita Blake faces a plethora of foes in her tenth outing. Just returned to St. Louis after six months away, Anita is still no closer to choosing between her lovers—Jean-Claude, a vampire, and Richard, a werewolf. But she has to rely on both for help after two of the wereleopards that she has been watching are abducted at a seedy club called Narcissus in Chains. Anita and her boyfriends rescue the wereleopards from the sinister people holding them, but Anita is wounded in the fight and put at risk of becoming a wereleopard herself. Richard angrily captures the wereleopard he believes is responsible and threatens to execute him.Anita must now rescue that wereleopard from Richard and the werewolves he leads, even as she mourns the apparent end of her relationship with him. Then she realizes that those who kidnapped the first two wereleopards are targeting other lycanthropes. Maybe she will be next. With plenty of steamy sex and graphic violence, this is engaging reading for vampire cultists.

    Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel10
    3.9

  11. Cerulean Sins

    An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, vampire hunter Anita Blake learns what it's like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline—and just how far she’ll let herself get pushed around. Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire, and Micah, the leopard shapeshifter. Not quite as human as she once was, she is consumed by both their hungers—desires that must be sated time and time again. And when a centuries-old vampire targets Jean-Claude and his clan, Anita finds herself tested as never before—needing all the dark forces her passion can muster to save the ones she loves the most...

    Cerulean Sins11
    3.9

  12. Incubus Dreams

    In the latest installment of Hamilton's bestselling series, vampire hunter Anita Blake faces a vampire serial killer targeting strippers. Struggling with a conflict of interest, she seeks help, navigating the complexities of her duties to both the living and the undead.

    Incubus Dreams12
    3.8

  13. Micah

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    "RAISING THE DEAD IS EASY. LOVE IS HARD..." There are lots of reasons to raise the dead-some private, some public. In this case, the feds have a witness who died before he could speak on the record. They want him raised so his testimony can be taken. So here I am, on a plane to Philadelphia, flying off to do my job. But I'm not alone. Micah is with me. Micah, head of the St. Louis wereleopard pard. King to my Queen. The only one of my lovers who can stir my blood with just a glance from his chartreuse cat's eyes. I was happy to have him at my side. Until he mentioned that this will be our first time alone together. No Master Vampire. No Alpha Werewolf. Just me and Micah. And all my fears and doubts...

    Micah13
    3.7

  14. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 13: Danse Macabre

    The New Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    • 496 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, werewolf, or something else entirely, it's clear that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner is no way to bring up a baby.

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 13: Danse Macabre14
    3.9

  15. The Harlequin

    • 448 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    Into Anita Blake's world-a world already overflowing with power-come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.

    The Harlequin15
    4.0

  16. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 16: Blood Noir

    An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    • 340 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    When Anita Blake takes a trip with Jason, a young werewolf who is her friend and sometimes lover, there are consequences both in Jason's small hometown and in Anita's life with Jean-Claude. As master vampire of the city, Jean-Claude has appearances to maintain, and if his lover has gone off with someone else, the other vampires are led to certain conclusions: maybe Jean-Claude is getting soft. And if Jean-Claude is vulnerable, maybe Anita - who seems to amplify the powers of any man she stays with - might be stolen away from him, by force if necessary.

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 16: Blood Noir16
    4.0

  17. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 17: Skin Trade

    An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    • 486 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    Once you tell someone certain things, like, say, you got mailed a human head in a box, they tend to think you're crazy.Anita Blake's reputation has taken some hits. Not on the work front, where she has the highest kill count of all the legal vampire executioners in the country, but on the personal front. No one seems to trust a woman who sleeps with the monsters. Still, when a vampire serial killer sends her a head from Las Vegas, Anita has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Several officers and one executioner have been slain - paranormal style...Anita heads to Las Vegas, where she's joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward hiding behind his mild-mannered persona. It's a good thing Edward always has her back, because, when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses "tiger" too strongly to ignore it. The were-tigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher...

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 17: Skin Trade17
    4.0

  18. Flirt

    • 224 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    The eighteenth enthralling outing for Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter

    Flirt18
    3.8

  19. Bullet

    • 448 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    Assassins are coming to St. Louis to kill master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman. Anita knows they're coming, but even being forewarned doesn't mean the triumvirate will win.

    Bullet19
    4.0