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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter · Book 22

Kiss the Dead

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Published
1 January 2012
Pages
359
ISBN-13
9780425247549
Type
novel

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Cover of Kiss the Dead

About this book

Kiss the Dead, at 359 pages and published in 2012, is the 21th entry in the Anita Blake series -- part of the ardeur-driven stretch of the series that split fans between readers who followed Anita into her expanding relationships and those who preferred the earlier mystery-forward books.

Its place in Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter

Kiss the Dead is book 22 in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. It follows Hit List. It is followed by Affliction. See the full Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter reading order.

Anita Blake raises zombies for a living and stakes vampires as a licensed executioner for the city of St. Louis, in a world where vampires won legal personhood decades ago and the undead, werewolves, and other shapeshifters live in uneasy, regulated coexistence with humans. The early novels play as noir-tinged supernatural procedurals -- Anita investigating murders, rogue vampires, and lycanthrope pack politics with a gun in one hand and necromancy in the other. From the middle of the series onward, the books…

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