title: Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16)
author:  Laurell K. Hamilton 
description: The florid 16th Anita Blake novel (after 2007's <i>The Harlequin</i>) updates Anita's endlessly erotic adventures as a living vampire with many weird lovers. Anita serves her vampire sweetie Jean-Claude, Master of the City of St. Louis, obsessed with feeding him and her own need to leech off of others' sexual pleasure or ardeur while retaining her rep as vampire executioner (despite the seeming conflict of interest), U.S. marshal and necromancer. She's also accompanying her bed-buddy Jason Schuyler to visit his dying estranged father in North Carolina. After arriving, Jason's mistaken for his rich cousin Keith Summerland, who's ditched his bride-to-be to run off with the wife of a vampire Master, giving Anita a case to solve between wild orgies with wereanimals. Hamilton chronicles Anita's escapades with a growing air of ennui, which longtime readers can't help sharing as sex increasingly takes the place of plot and character development. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita
  Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman has made Jean-Claude one of the most
  powerful vampires in the U.S. He's consolidating power in himself and those
  loyal to him, doing in America what Belle Morte did in Europe when she was at
  her height of power. She almost owned Europe, and there was those who are
  determined that Jean-Claude won't do the same in America. Jean-Claude's
  motives may be kinder, but as any lawyer will tell you: motives matter, but
  you're just as dead.
  
  
  Assassins are coming to St. Louis to kill them all. Anita knows they're
  coming, but even being forewarned doesn't mean you can win.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Bullet
  
  
  ## (Book 19 in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series)
  
  
  ## Laurell K Hamilton
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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