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Bloody Bones

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Anita leaves St. Louis to raise 200-year-old dead in a tourist town and finds something far older than vampires

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Quick recap

Anita is hired to raise the dead in an old cemetery in Branson, Missouri, where a land dispute hinges on who is buried there. The bodies are over 200 years old, a risky job even for her. Teenagers start turning up dead in town, and the local police ask for help. The clues point to something much older than ordinary vampires, and to a family with fey blood. Anita calls in Jean-Claude and Richard, and the triangle gets tenser. The investigation leads to Serephina, the region's master vampire, and Anita has to use everything she has to get out alive.

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Trivia

  1. ReferenceThe bogeyman in the title

    Bloody Bones comes from English and Southern U.S. folklore: Rawhead and Bloody Bones is a bogeyman used to scare children since the 1500s.

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  2. Behind the scenesThe F&SF review

    Michelle West of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction called it a perfect rushing-through-holiday-hell stopover, a book that asks little of a tired reader.

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