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- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
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- Behind the scenesHorror dressed as hardboiled crime
It came out in 1993 from Ace as a paperback. It blends the supernatural with American hardboiled detective fiction, told in first person by a cynical investigator.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesIt became a Marvel comic
On October 20, 2006, the comic adaptation from Marvel and Dabel Brothers began. It ran 12 issues and was later collected in volumes.
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- Behind the scenesA comics bestseller
The comic adaptation came out in 2008. Its first collected volume made the New York Times bestseller list for graphic books.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesIn Brazil from Rocco
Rocco published it in Brazil in 2010 as O Cadáver que Ri, at 341 pages, three years after the first book.
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- Behind the scenesThree comic arcs
Marvel adapted this book in three arcs, The Charmer, The Ingenue and The Scoundrel, from 2010 to 2012. It wrapped up the publisher's deal for the first three books.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesCircus in Brazil
In Brazil, Rocco published it in 2011 as Circo dos Condenados, at 320 pages.
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- Behind the scenesCafé dos Loucos
Rocco released the fourth book in Brazil in 2012 as Café dos Loucos, at 368 pages.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAs far as Spanish goes
In Spain, Gigamesh published it as Café de los lunáticos in 2009. It is the fourth book in the series translated into Spanish. The later ones never came out in Spanish.
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- 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.
source ↗ - 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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- Behind the scenesThe author's hometown
Laurell K. Hamilton lives in St. Louis County, Missouri, the same city where Anita has lived and worked since the first book.
source ↗ - SetupTwo boyfriends at arm's length
Anita is dating a vampire and a werewolf and trying to keep both at a distance. Watch how long that balance holds with her life on the line.
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- Behind the scenesThe Ace cover
The Ace edition cover is by Lee MacLeod, the same artist behind the covers of Bloody Bones and Blue Moon.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesKimberly Alexis narrates
The unabridged audiobook, read by Kimberly Alexis, runs 13 hours and came out in 2010. She narrates much of the series.
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- ReferenceA story in between
Between Blue Moon and Obsidian Butterfly sits a short story, The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death, published in 2004 in the anthology Bite.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesReviewed in Science Fiction Chronicle
Don D'Ammassa reviewed the book in Science Fiction Chronicle in March 1999, a few months after release.
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- ReferenceRight before book 10
Narcissus in Chains picks up shortly after Obsidian Butterfly and about six months after Blue Moon.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe longest yet
The Jove mass-market edition runs 608 pages, nearly double Guilty Pleasures. The unabridged audiobook tops 19 hours.
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- ReferenceEnter the ardeur
This is the book where Anita gains the ardeur, a rare power from Jean-Claude's bloodline that forces its bearer to feed on sexual energy.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe turn that split fans
Readers and critics split over the series' turn toward sexual themes, which starts with this book. From here on, the romance weighs as much as the case.
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- ReferenceCompared to Buffy
Scholar Kevin Durand compares the series to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and argues that the power gap between men and women in the early books is evened out here.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesHardcover first
Since Narcissus in Chains, the books have launched in hardcover. Cerulean Sins came out that way in 2003, with the 560-page mass-market edition following in 2004.
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- SetupNot every case closes
Early on, the Browns ask Anita to raise their murdered son. Keep that request in mind: not everything gets settled inside this book.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe series doorstop
The Jove mass-market edition runs 752 pages, the longest book in the series. The unabridged audiobook tops 27 hours.
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- Behind the scenesStraight to paperback
Micah came out in February 2006 straight to mass-market paperback, at 288 pages, far shorter than the books around it.
source ↗ - ReferenceWho Micah is
Micah joined the series in Narcissus in Chains as the wereleopard leader and Anita's partner. Here he gets a book of his own.
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- Behind the scenesHardcover, then paperback
The book came out in June 2006 and reached mass-market paperback in March 2007, at 576 pages.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesSix million copies
By 2009, three years after this book, the series had more than 6 million copies in print.
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- SetupA name nobody says
The publisher pitches beings so feared that even centuries-old vampires avoid saying their name. Watch who in the court reacts to that word.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA different narrator
The 2019 unabridged audiobook is read by Cynthia Holloway and runs 16 hours 39 minutes.
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- Behind the scenesThe Time magazine year
In 2008, the year of this book, Time wrote that urban fantasy's popularity owes everything to Laurell K. Hamilton.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe queen behind it
The publisher says Anita becomes a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's power play. The threat reaches well beyond the trip itself.
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- Behind the scenesThe IFC deal year
In March 2009, the year of this book, news broke of a deal with IFC for a movie and possible series. The author later announced the plans had been dropped.
source ↗ - ReferenceEdward is back
Anita heads to Las Vegas with three other federal marshals, including Edward, who hides his ruthlessness behind a mild manner.
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- ReferenceNumber 18 or not?
Penguin counts Flirt as book 18, but English Wikipedia leaves it off the numbered list as a novella.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesShort and quick
It came out in February 2010. The mass-market edition runs 288 pages, and the audiobook is under 4 hours.
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- ReferenceThe first vampire
The threat here is the Mother of All Darkness, the first vampire, who wants a new human body. Her pick is Anita.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesSame-day release
The book and audiobook came out the same day, June 1, 2010. The 432-page mass-market edition followed a year later.
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- ReferenceThe Harlequin in America
The publisher warns that the Harlequin, the feared group introduced in The Harlequin, is operating in America and targeting weretigers and police.
source ↗ - SetupBait?
Edward suspects the murders are a setup to lure Anita. Keep an eye on who gains from having her on the case.
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- Behind the scenesPraised and panned
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch praised Kiss the Dead, while RT Book Reviews panned it.
source ↗ - SetupVampires who'd rather die
The new vampires Anita finds would rather die than obey their master. Ask yourself why.
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- ReferenceDancing paved the way
The novella Dancing, released as an e-book in September 2013, ended with a preview of Affliction.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesDaylight zombies
The zombies here hunt in daylight, are as fast and strong as vampires and turn victims with one bite, nothing like the ones Anita raises.
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- Behind the scenesIt started as a short story
In 2014, the author wrote on her blog about an untitled Jason short story or novelette in progress. It became this book.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA bedroom story
It came out in December 2014, at 304 pages. There's barely a case: the story is about sex and relationships.
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- ReferenceEngaged to Jean-Claude
When the book opens, Anita is engaged to Jean-Claude, the vampire she kept turning down in the early books.
source ↗ - ReferenceA novella after
Between Dead Ice and Crimson Death sits the 2016 novella Wounded, numbered 24.5.
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- ReferenceDamian again
The focus here is Damian, the vampire Anita brought back and made her servant in Narcissus in Chains.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesPage count stretch
The e-book lists 576 pages, but the 2017 mass-market edition hits 720, the second-thickest in the series.
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- ReferenceA Greek curse
The rare lycanthropy here turns victims into masses of snakes and supposedly stems from an ancient Greek curse handed down in one family for generations.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA two-year wait
Serpentine came out in 2018, two years after Crimson Death, the longest gap between novels in the series up to then.
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- ReferenceA story first
A few months earlier, in April 2020, the story Zombie Dearest came out in the anthology Fantastic Hope, numbered 26.5.
source ↗ - SetupThe evidence doesn't fit
The publisher hints that the crime-scene evidence doesn't quite fit. Note the details Anita spots first.
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- ReferenceThe Rat King
Rafael showed up as early as the first book, Guilty Pleasures, when the Rat King thwarted one of Nikolaos's plans against Anita.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesShort and sharp
At 272 pages, Rafael is one of the shortest books in the series. It came out in February 2021 straight to paperback and e-book.
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- ReferenceVampire king
Jean-Claude, who became Master of the City in the first book, is now the new vampire king of America.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTwo in one year
Smolder and Slay both came out in 2023, in March and November, the first time since 2006 the series had two novels in one year.
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- Behind the scenesThe latest
Slay came out in hardcover on November 7, 2023, at 416 pages. It's book 30 and the latest in the series.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesKimberly Alexis again
The audiobook, out the same day, runs 12 hours 35 minutes, narrated by Kimberly Alexis, who reads much of the series.
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