Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures - Volume 2 (collective work) (edit title/settings)

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• Anita Blake: animator, necromancer, vampire executioner, Jean-Claude's human servant
• Jean-Claude: Manager of Guilty Pleasures , master vampire, Anita's Master
• Bert Vaughn: Founder and managing partner of Animators, Inc.. Bert is an unscrupulous boss who is inclined to sign the animators up for almost any job if the price is right. He and Anita often clash over Bert's choices of potential clients and jobs for Anita.
• Catherine Maison: Friend of Anita and criminal attorney
• Monica Vespucci: Lawyer at Anita's friend Catherine's law firm, and a vampire aficionado. She is one of the bridesmaids at Catherine's wedding.
• Edward: Edward is 5' 8" with blond hair and blue eyes. Edward is "not an imposing man", appearance-wise, with his eyes - "as cold and as distant as wintery skies". A hitman, he now specializes in assassinating supernatural targets, because humans were too easy. He particularly hunts vampires and lycanthropes, and taught Anita most of her combat skills. Anita considers herself to be possibly Edward's only true friend. Edward is an extremely dangerous man.
• Philip: "Vampire junkie" and a stripper at Guilty Pleasures, and was the first in a long line of beautiful but wounded strippers who have looked to Anita for healing and protection.
• Theresa: Arrogant and sadistic vampire
• Willie McCoy: Small-time hood turned vampire. The first vampire friend of Anita's, he is one of only two or three vampires Anita has known before and after being turned.
• Nikolaos: Ruthless 1000+ year old master vampire of the city of St, Louis.
• Valentine: Vampire with dozens of human kills. He was the only vampire survivor of an earlier fight between his kiss of vampires and Anita, Manny, and Edward. During that fight, Anita received the scars she possessed at the beginning of Guilty Pleasures, and Valentine's face was scarred by holy water.
• Veronica "Ronnie" Sims: Anita's best friend and her usual workout partner and confidante. A private investigator on retainer with Animators, Inc.
• Rafael: Rafael is the leader of the St. Louis wererats. King of Dark Crown Clan.
• Rudolph "Dolph" Storr: Dolph is a police officer who was assigned to head up St. Louis' Regional Preternatural Investigation Team (RPIT) after the passage of Addison v. Clark, investigating supernatural related crimes.
• Jamison Clarke: An animator at Animators, Inc. who typically clashes with Anita over Anita's side job as vampire executioner. Unlike Anita, Jamison believes that vampires are essentially people, and disapproves of executing them without trial.
• Zerbrowski: Highly competent detective and a loyal friend to Anita. He also makes wisecracks about Anita's personal life and is a cheerful lech.
• Malcolm: Powerful master vampire, and the head of the Church of Eternal Life in St. Louis, where being a permanent member means you will live forever (stakes, fire, and crosses aside).
• Dead Dave: An ex-cop who was kicked off the force after he became a vampire and who now owns a bar called Dead Dave's. Though still bitter at the police for kicking him off the force, Dave sells and gives information to Anita to aid her investigations.
• Luther: A human bartender at Dead Dave's. He works the day shift and frequently acts as Anita's informant on the bar's owner, Dave's, behalf.
• Burchard: Nikolaos's human servant, Burchard was centuries old. He was bald, skilled with weapons, and carried himself like a soldier.
• Aubrey: Centuries old vampire. Although not a master, Aubrey was a very powerful lieutenant of Nikolaos. Aubrey was partially insane as a result of punishments received from Nikolaos.

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• St. Louis, Missouri

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• Regional Preternatural Investigation Team: RPIT, usually pronounced "Rip-It", is an extension of the St. Louis Police Department charged with keeping the peace between the human and supernatural communities by investigating all crimes with a supernatural aspect, and apprehending and/or exterminating the guilty parties. It has only recently been formed, largely as a half-hearted effort to placate the liberals and the press after the groundbreaking Addison vs. Clark case. Its remit is to investigate all supernatural crimes, whether it be committed against humans or against the supernatural beings themselves, including Vampires, Lycanthropes, Zombies, Ghouls, and more. Derogatorily known as the "Spook Squad", it is not considered a positive career move to join it, and it is comprised mostly of police officers who have aggravated their superiors in some way or another.
• Animators, Inc.: One of the most successful animator companies in the US. Although having begun as a small business in a spare room above a garage, it has grown, moving to bigger and better offices and hiring additional animators and secretarial staff. Though primarily aimed at raising the dead, the nature of the business has attracted other clients who wished to utilize the animator's expert supernatural knowledge, especially after vampires won civil rights. The firm usually receives contracts to have the dead raised as zombies, usually as witnesses in legal cases, setting will disputes, and sometimes as a last chance to have a word with a loved one who has passed away.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Laurell K. Hamilton (Author)
2. Ron Lim (Artist)

Other Contributors:

1. Jess Ruffner-Booth (Author)
2. Brett Booth (Artist)

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• Dewey: 741.5973

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• Books › Comics & Graphic Novels › Graphic Novels › Fantasy
• Books › Comics & Graphic Novels › Publishers › Marvel
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( H ) › Hamilton, Laurell K.
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Urban
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Dark

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Laurell K. Hamilton: Author's Website
• Demonpuppy's Wicked Awesome Art Blog: Brett Booth's Blog

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