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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter · Book 2

The Laughing Corpse

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Published
1 January 1994
Pages
293
ISBN-13
9780425204665
Type
novel

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About this book

The Laughing Corpse (1994, 293 pages) is book 2 of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, from the early run that plays as noir-tinged supernatural procedural -- Anita raising zombies and staking vampires as St. Louis's licensed executioner, investigating murders and lycanthrope pack politics with a gun in one hand and necromancy in the other.

Its place in Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter

The Laughing Corpse is book 2 in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. It follows Guilty Pleasures. It is followed by Circus of the Damned. 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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