The Anita Blake novels take place in a world where vampires, werewolves, and other creatures of nightmare have been declared legal citizens of the United States. As Anita gains the attention of the vampire masters in her hometown of St. Louis, she also risks revealing an intriguing...
Anita Blake is an 'animator' - a profession that involves raising the dead for mourning relatives. But Anita is also known as a fearsome hunter of criminal vampires, and she's often employed to investigate cases that are far too much for conventional police.