The Laughing Corpse ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

This is the second book in the Anita Blake series.

After killing the previous Master of the City, Anita now has to deal with Jean-Claude as the Master, but can she deal with him without killing him? As a string of bloody murders occurs, Anita is called in by the police for help finding the culprit, a zombie. Anita’s never encountered a zombie like  this before, and she’s not sure if she can help. At the same time she’s being hounded by Harold Gaynor to raise an almost three hundred year old zombie, she’s refusing because it will require a human sacrifice, but Harold’s not taking no for an answer.

Guilty Pleasures ~ Laurell K Hamilton

This is book one in the Anita Blake series.

Anita is asked to investigate a series of killings by the local vampires, but since it’s her policy never to work for the vampires she turns the job down. Instead they blackmail her into doing it, by threatening her friends. In the course of her investigation Anita meets some terrifying vampires. Nicolaos, who’s over a thousand years old, is the Master of the City and the vamp that most scares Anita, but Anita knows that once the case is over she’ll also have others to deal with, if they survive. Can Anita solve the crimes and manage to stay alive once she’s done so?

Hit List ~ Laurell K Hamilton

This is the twentieth book in the Anita Blake series.

Anita and Edward are in Seattle working on a serial killer who’s hunting down and tearing up unclanned weretigers. They know who the killers are but can’t share it with the rest of the Marshalls. Will it be too late by the time they figure out how to find and kill them?

Can He Bake a Cherry Pie ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is a short story found in the Never After Anthology.

Elinore was desperate to get out of a marriage to an elderly earl that her father had arranged, and she had but one chance to do so without dishonoring her family. Before the engagement can be announced Elinore announces that she is going to save Prince True. This quest has been a death sentence for all who have ever tried it, and Elinore believes that she will fail as well, but at least it will be an honorable death. But will it be what she expects?

Bullet ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the nineteenth book in the Anita Blake series.

Anita is preparing for a visit from several Las Vegas Weretigers, one she knows she has to make, because she needs to deal with the ties she has made to a couple of them. But before that meeting can come along, they discover that Marmee Noir is not dead like they have all believed for the last year. She has split her soul, and the vampire council is hosting bits of her in each of most of them, and now, she is going to try to take back over.  Can Anita and all the men manage to survive, and fight back?

Flirt ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is book eighteen in the Anita Blake series.

After Anita turns down more than one animating job because the people what unreasonable things of the zombie, she is confused who is behind her kidnapping, and the threatening of her loved ones. When she is faced with getting herself out of trouble or letting one of her men die, will she use all her resources? Or will her moral issues keep her from doing what needs to be done to save them?

Skin Trade ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is book seventeen in the Anita Blake series.

When Anita receives a human head in the mail, sent from a serial killer vampire, she knows it is a trap, but she feels she has to go anyway. While in Las Vegas, hunting Vittorio, the serial killer, she also encounters the local were tiger queen, who has an agenda of her own. Can Anita, and her fellow Marshalls, Ted, Otto, and Bernardo keep the wicked Vampire of the day from eating all of Las Vegas?

Blood Noir ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is book sixteen in the Anita Blake series.

When Jason’s girlfriend, Perdy, breaks up with him, he goes to his best friends, Nathanial and Anita for comfort. It doesn’t help things that minutes after the fight that ended the relationship, his mother called him with the news that his father is dying and has been given only weeks to live. Desperate to help him feel better, Anita ends up going home to visit his family with him. What she didn’t count on was near identical cousins who start trouble with vampires. Can Anita manage to keep both her and Jason alive, despite the unpredicted turn of events?

The Harlequin ~ Laurell Hamiton

This is book fifteen in the Anita Blake series.

Malcom, leader of the Church of Eternal Life, schedules a meeting with Anita. He asks for her help, there is a powerful vampire, or more than one, hiding among his followers. He knows he is in trouble, and that Jean-Claude is too, but he can’t go directly to Jean-Claude, so he goes to Anita. But can Anita, Jean-Claude and all their people handle the ones who have come for them? Will this be the bad guy who gets the best of them?

Bullet ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

This is book nineteen in the Anita Blake series.

They thought they had killed her, they believed they were safe from her forever… Until the Immortal Darkness tried to possess them. Aparently killing her body had not been enough, she convinced parts of the council to use her powers, and now, she is part of them. The only way to battle her, and protect the vampires in the U.S. is to become as powerful as the council. But can Anita, Jean-Claude and the rest convince the other Masters of the City to go along?