Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter

Latest release: November 7, 2023
Series
30
Audiobooks
10
Special editions
Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 1·Aug 2009
4.8
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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
The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 2·Aug 2009
4.9
·
The early Anita Blake novels find new life in trade paperback-as perfect collectibles for long-time fans or as great ways for new readers to sink their teeth into the series.

In The Laughing Corpse, a creature from beyond the grave is tearing a swath of murder through St. Louis. And Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left buried-and some people better off dead...

 

Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 3·Oct 2009
4.8
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First time in trade paperback: the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for the first time-a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other plans. And to make matters worse, Anita takes a hit to the heart when she meets a stunningly handsome junior high science teacher named Richard Zeeman. They're two humans caught in the crossfire-or so Anita thinks.
The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 4·Oct 2009
4.9
·
First time in trade paperback: the fourth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake is an expert at sniffing out the bad from the good. But in The Lunatic Cafe-now in trade paperback for the first time-she's about to learn that nothing is ever as it seems, especially in matters of the not-so-human heart.

Dating a werewolf with self-esteem issues is stressing Anita out. Especially when something-or someone-starts taking out the city's shapeshifters.
Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 5·Jan 2010
4.9
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For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Laurell K. Hamilton.

When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake is an expert in the kinds of preternatural goings-on that have everyone spooked. And she's got an 'in' with the creature that can make sense of the slayings-the sexy master vampire known as Jean-Claude.
The Killing Dance: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 6·Jan 2010
4.9
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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.
Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 7·Jan 2010
4.9
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Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno.
Blue Moon: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 8·Mar 2010
4.7
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Unabridged CDs, 15 CDs, 19 hours

Read by Kimberly Alexis

In Blue Moon, Anita Blake's ex, high school teacher and sexy lycanthrope Richard, has been thrown in jail for attempted rape. With an entourage of vampires and werewolves, even this preternatural expert knows all is not right in Myerton, Tennessee.
Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 9·Mar 2010
4.9
·
#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face. . . .

Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters, vampires, shapeshifters, anything and everything. There are people like Anita who do it legal, but Edward doesn't sweat the legalities, or, hell, the ethics. He's an equal opportunity killer. 

Anita may be one of the few friends that Edward has, but it’s like being friends with a tame leopard. It may curl up on the foot of your bed and let you pet its head, but it can still rip your throat out. . . .
Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 10·Apr 2019
4.9
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In her tenth adventure, nothing can save vampire hunter Anita Blake from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity.
Cerulean Sins: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 11·Apr 2019
4.0
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In this audiobook 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...
Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 12·Apr 2019
4.7
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Vampire hunter Anita Blake finds her life is more complicated than ever, caught as she is between her obligations to the living-and the undead.
Micah: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 13·Apr 2019
4.6
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Vampire hunter Anita Blake is called on to raise the dead-while trying to suppress her ever-growing feelings for a certain wereleopard.
Danse Macabre: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 14·Apr 2019
4.6
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In the thralls of supernatural passion, Anita Blake faces a most human dilemma.
The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 15·Apr 2019
4.8
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Into Anita Blake's world-a world already overflowing with power-come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.
Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 16·Nov 2020
4.5
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A favor for a friend puts Anita Blake in the center of a full-blown scandal that threatens master vampire Jean- Claude's reign-and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's new rise to power.
Skin Trade: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 17·Jun 2009
4.8
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When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal style.
Flirt: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 18·Feb 2010
4.5
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Anita Blake has been asked to raise the dead-but the results aren't going to make everybody happy...
Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 19·Jun 2010
4.8
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The Mother of All Darkness-the first vampire-wants to enter into a new human body...and the one she has in mind belongs to Anita Blake.
Hit List: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 20·Jun 2011
4.9
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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, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.

But some monsters are very real—and even to speak their name can earn you a death sentence. The bogeymen of the vampire world, The Harlequin, are here in America hunting weretigers and human police. But Edward thinks the serial killings are just a trap—to lure Anita ever closer to the most dangerous vampire they’ve ever hunted…

Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 1·Aug 2009
5.0
·
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
The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 2·Aug 2009
4.9
·
The early Anita Blake novels find new life in trade paperback-as perfect collectibles for long-time fans or as great ways for new readers to sink their teeth into the series.

In The Laughing Corpse, a creature from beyond the grave is tearing a swath of murder through St. Louis. And Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left buried-and some people better off dead...

 

Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 3·Oct 2009
5.0
·
First time in trade paperback: the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for the first time-a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other plans. And to make matters worse, Anita takes a hit to the heart when she meets a stunningly handsome junior high science teacher named Richard Zeeman. They're two humans caught in the crossfire-or so Anita thinks.
The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 4·Oct 2009
4.8
·
First time in trade paperback: the fourth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake is an expert at sniffing out the bad from the good. But in The Lunatic Cafe-now in trade paperback for the first time-she's about to learn that nothing is ever as it seems, especially in matters of the not-so-human heart.

Dating a werewolf with self-esteem issues is stressing Anita out. Especially when something-or someone-starts taking out the city's shapeshifters.
Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 5·Jan 2010
5.0
·
For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Laurell K. Hamilton.

When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake is an expert in the kinds of preternatural goings-on that have everyone spooked. And she's got an 'in' with the creature that can make sense of the slayings-the sexy master vampire known as Jean-Claude.
The Killing Dance: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 6·Jan 2010
5.0
·
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.
Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 7·Jan 2010
4.3
·
Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno.
Blue Moon: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 8·Mar 2010
4.8
·
“With a heroine as sharp as a stake and slick as a silver bullet, Laurell K. Hamilton sucks you into her fascinating world like a vampire’s kiss.”—J. D. Robb
 
Danger makes the world go ‘round in Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling novels. Just ask Anita Blake, vampire hunter. Right now, her problems lie with her ex-fiancé—a werewolf who just got arrested on an assault charge. His guilt or innocence is not the issue. The fact that there’s a full moon on the rise is. . . .
 
Praise for the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novels
 
“An R-rated Buffy the Vampire Slayer . . . the action never stops.”—The New York Review of Science Fiction
Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 9·Mar 2010
4.1
·
#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face...

Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters, vampires, shapeshifters, anything and everything. There are people like Anita who do it legal, but Edward doesn't sweat the legalities, or, hell, the ethics. He's an equal opportunity killer.

Anita may be one of the few friends that Edward has, but it’s like being friends with a tame leopard. It may curl up on the foot of your bed and let you pet its head, but it can still eat your throat out...
Skin Trade: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Book 17·Jun 2009
4.3
·

 


When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal style.