Now, the bad boys, and girls are definitely not playing fair, combining their powers to kick butt.

So, who does she call? One of her boyfriends. Well, through the police work, she needs more help. Anita hasn’t even been in town for 24 hours and the dead she is suppose to raise is not what she expected, police need her, and she meets a fairy. Money talks, so off she goes, but it is never just an easy thing. She is going to raise some dead for a land dispute. Anita’s full time animator job calls her out of town. It didn’t take a degree in preternatural studies to figure out that something was very wrong in and around Branson, Missouri. And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I had never seen before. I’d been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THE DEAD MULTIPLY.”įirst, there were the dead in the graveyard, two-hundred years dead. “WHEN THE MONSTERS ARE INVOLVED, IT”S NEVER JUST ONE DEAD BODY.

The high stakes climb when shortly after her arrival, there is evidence of illegal vampire activity in the area as well as some strange killings.Melissa‘s Guest review of Bloody Bones, book five in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. She brings Larry Kirkland along with her to Branson to see if she can do the task. To settle an ownership despute, Anita is called in to raise the dead in an ancient graveyard to determine which family is buried there and thus owns the land. (*Don't read if you don't want to read spoilers*) It didn't take a degree in preternatural studies to figure out that something was very wrong in and around Branson, Missouri. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I had never seen before.Īnd then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. I'd been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. 'First, there were the dead in the graveyard - two-hundred years dead. As always, Anita prevails over the undead, keeping Jean-Claude at arm's length, clearing the cemetery land of an ancient enchantment, and nailing the vampiric killer in one fell swoop.' A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area, and Anita must call on Jean-Claude, her powerful fanged suitor, for help. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Missouri, to do the deed, the job gets more interesting. 'When Anita Blake's boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she's expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she's understandably annoyed. This is the publisher's blurb on the back on LKH's book 'Bloody Bones' (book five in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series)

Bloody bones by laurell k hamilton