Laurell K. Hamilton

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British Pbk Original - Orbit (2002)

Narcissus in Chains
Returning to St. Louis after a tough case in New Mexico, work is the last thing that Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, wants to think about. The woman the vampires call The Executioner is still no closer to choosing between her two lovers and after months of celibacy, she craves them like never before.
But when a wereleopard is abducted from a seedy club; Anita is plunged once more into the dark world of shapeshifter crime and werecreature power struggles. A sinister force seems to be targeting the lycanthropes and Anita may be their only hope - but only if she can survive herself...

British Pbk Original - Bantam (2001)

A Kiss of Shadows

My name is Meredith Gentry, but of course it’s not my real name. I dare not even whisper my true name after dark for fear that one hushed word will travel over the night winds to the soft ear of my aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness. She wants me dead. I don’t even know why...

I fled the high court of Faerie three years ago and have been hiding ever since. As Merry Gentry, I am a private investigator for the Grey Detective Agency: Supernatural Problems, Magical Solutions. My magical skills, scorned at the courts of Faerie, are valued in the human world. Even by human standards, my magic isn’t flashy, which is fine by me. Flashy attracts attention and I can’t afford that.
Rumour has it that I am dead. Not quite. I am Princess Meredith NicEssus. To speak that name after dark is to call down a knock upon your door from a hand that can kill you with a touch. I have been careful, but not careful enough. The shadows have found me, and they are going to take me back home, one way or another.
So the running is over. But the fighting has just begun...
Rich, sensual, brimming with dangerous magic, A Kiss of Shadows is a dazzling tour-de-force where folklore, fantasy and erotically charged adventure collide.
`A wonderful excursion into the magic of desire’ Alice Borchardt
`Hamilton takes her world by the teeth and runs with it, devising a whipcrack adventure that moves like the wind, grips you by the throat and doesn’t let go’ Locus
After nine novels featuring Anita Blake, Hamilton launches a sizzling new series that blends supernatural fantasy with detective adventure and hot sex . . . As wild as the novel’s premise is, memorable characters and wicked wit make it all delicious, ribald fun’ Publishers Weekly
`I’ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination’ Diana Gabaldon
`An edgy story of sex, violence and magic that manages to be both disturbing and entertaining. Highly recommended’ Library Journal
`Her sexy, edgy, wickedly ironic style sweeps the reader into her unique world and delivers red-hot entertainment - she blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache’ Jayne Anne Krentz
`Packed with brownies, ogres, action and adult-style sexuality, this magical adventure is for grown-ups’ Dallas Morning News
`Hamilton has created an exciting and original world in which faeries are an accepted - if not quite normal -population alongside humans . . . A Kiss of Shadows is clearly the first of a series . . . A stunning beginning’ Mercury News
`The interaction of the modern world and the Faerie world in A Kiss of Shadows is well developed with a story that mixes mystery, romance and political intrigue’ Denver Post
`Hamilton is a gifted writer . . . she dexterously balances the exotic with the erotic’ Chicago Sun-Times

British Pbk Original - Orbit (2001)

Obsidian Butterfly
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, has dealt with - and destroyed - a lot of monsters. But her old mentor, Edward - ruthless killer, bounty hunter, assassin may be worse than any of them.
But Edward’s got problems. A malevolent and seemingly unstoppable force is mutilating and dismembering the citizens of New Mexico - and if he is to stop it he’ll need all of Anita’s firepower and cunning.
It may not be enough.

British Pbk Original - Orbit (2000)

Blue Moon
Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We’d broken up after I’d seen him eat somebody.
You never forget your ex-fiance. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it was him. It wasn’t. It was his brother. And It wasn’t good news. Apparently, the former love of my life had got himself thrown into jail for assaulting a woman.
Since I make my living as a preternatural expert, I tend to believe almost anything’s possible. But though he may be one of the monsters, Richard would never harm a woman. So it’s Anita to the rescue. I’ve got just a few days to spring Richard and find out who framed him – and why. There’s a full moon coming, and if my werewolf love is still behind bars when it rises, he’ll be facing a lot worse than an assault charge…

British Pbk Original - Orbit (2000)

Burnt Offerings
You can’t trust anyone who sleeps with monsters
That’s what I’ve always said. That’s what I’ve always believed. But now I’m the one sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City. Me, Anita Blake. The woman the vampires call The Executioner. From part of the solution, I’ve become part of the problem.
So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over town - an arsonist who seems to want to destroy more than just property. It’s the monsters who are in danger now. And it’s up to the Executioner to save them from the inferno ...
‘This fast-paced, tough-edged supernatural thiller is mesmerizing reading indeed…’ Locus