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Bloody Bones
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Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Book 5

Bloody Bones (1996) (edit title/settings)

by Laurell K. Hamilton (Author) (edit contributors)

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In Laurell K. Hamilton's New York Times bestselling novels, Anita Blake, vampire hunter and animator, takes a bite out of crime-of the supernatural kind. But even someone who deals with death on a daily basis can be unnerved by its power... When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death... read more

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When the monsters are involved, it's never just one dead body. one way or another the dead multiply.

First, there were the dead in the graveyard, two hundred years old dead. I'd been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in.
Then there were... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

When the monsters are involved, it's never just one dead body. one way or another the dead multiply.

First, there were the dead in the graveyard, two hundred years old dead. I'd been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in.
Then there were the three dead teenagers in the wood, slaughtered in a way I'd never seen before.
And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. I knew what that meant of course. It didn't take a degree in preternatural studies to figure out that something was wrong. And I was right in the middle of it.

My name is Anita Blake. Welcome to my life...

Characters edit see section history

  • Anita Blake: Animator, Necromancer, Vampire Executioner
  • Jean-Claude: Master of The City of St. Louis, Master Vampire, Richard's Master, Owns Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse and Circus of the Damned. Is in love with Anita.
  • Jason Schuyler: Werewolf, A stripper at Guilty Pleasures, Member of the Thronnos Rokke Clan, Jean-Claude's pomme de sang
  • Lawrence Kirkland: Larry is Anita's protégé. He is an animator at Animators, Inc. and his ultimate goal is to become a vampire executioner.
  • Seraphina: Master of the City of Branson. Master Vampire, Approximately 600 years old
  • Rudolph 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.
  • Richard Zeeman: Alpha Werewolf, Fenrir of the Thronnos Rokke Clan. Richard holds a degree in preternatural biology and has a day job as a junior high school science teacher. He is very closeted about his lycanthropy for fear of losing his job. Anita's boyfriend, Jean-Claude's Wolf to Call
  • Magnus Bouvier: The brother of Dorcas and part owner of the Bloody Bones restaurant. Like his sister he was descended from a fey named Llyn Bouvier and the daughter of a shaman of the local tribe.
  • Raymond Stirling: A partner in Beadle, Beadle, Stirling, and Lowenstein, a law firm that planned to build a exclusive resort in the mountains near Branson. The land the firm had bought was in a dispute between two families. Once a cemetery that might belong to the Bouvier familie is found, Sterling hires Anita to raise the zombies from the cemetery and discover who owns the land.
  • Dorcas Bouvier: Also called Dorrie by her brother Magnus, part owner of the Bloody Bones restaurant. Like her brother she was descended from a fey named Llyn Bouvier and the daughter of a shaman of the local tribe.
  • 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.
  • Lionel Bayard: Lawyer working under Mr. Stirling
  • Xavier: Vampire pedophile
  • Janos: Rotting Vampire, Seraphina's underling,Extremely powerful master vampire, so powerful, in fact, that Jean-Claude could not believe that Janos wasn't secretly Seraphina's master.
  • Bradley Bradford: FBI Special Agent and a member of the Special Research Section, essentially the FBI's version of RPIT.
  • Pallas: Rotting Vampire, Janos is her master
  • Rawhead and Bloody Bones: A fey approximately ten feet tall with a bloody, pulsing head. A children's boggle, Bloody Bones was a true immortal and lived to punish guilty children.
  • Bettina: Rotting Vampire, Janos is her master
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “Somehow Jean-Claude has crossed that line that a handful of other vampires have crossed.”
    Anita Blake
  • “Different strokes for different folks.”
    Anita Blake
  • “For the life of me, I couldn't think of a good comeback line.”
    Anita Blake
  • “You are an irritating son of a bitch." "Ah, ma petite, how can I resist you when you whisper such sweet endearments to me?”
    Anita, Jean-Claude
  • “After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.”
    Jean-Claude
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  • Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they’ll kill you. Either way, no more worries.
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  • God doesn’t always save someone. Often He just helps you live through the loss. I guess I don’t entirely trust God. I never doubt Him, but His motives are too beyond me. Through a glass darkly and all that. Just once I’d like to see through the damn glass clearly.
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  • Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that’ll eat your eyeballs if you’re not paying attention.
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  • There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.
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  • I never forgave anyone for anything. A character flaw to be sure, but hell, everyone’s got to have at least one.
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  • if you’re one of the bad guys you can’t be one of the good guys.”
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  • You have to sort of give yourself over to the trees the way you give yourself to water when you swim.
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  • I prayed as we walked up the hill. I prayed and felt a measure of calm return. No visions. No angels singing. But a feeling of peace flowed over me. I took a deep breath, and something hard and tight and ugly in my heart let go.
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  • PEOPLE WHO DON’T camp much think darkness falls from the sky. It doesn’t. Darkness slides from the trees and fills them first, then spreads outward to the open places.
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  • “I love you, ma petite, as much as I’m able.”
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Organizations edit see section history

  • 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.; Anita's place of employment
  • Special Research Section: A new FBI division set up to handle preternatural crime. Before the division was created, preternatural crimes were investigated by the Investigative Support, the FBI's serial killer profiler unit.

First Sentence edit see section history

IT WAS ST. Patrick's Day, and the only green I was wearing was a button that read,"Pinch me and you're dead meat".

Table of Contents edit see section history

Acknowledgments
Chapters 1 - 41

Glossary edit see section history

  • Ulfric: Male head of the werewolf clan
  • Lupa: Female head of the werewolf clan (but submissive to the Ulfric)
  • Ma Petite: French: When used as an adjective it translates to honey-sweet. It is also a cute double entendre that refers to Anita's height.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 5 of 26 in Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter. (standard series)

Preceded by The Lunatic Cafe, and followed by The Killing Dance.

This book is in Vampire (community list). (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Laurell K. Hamilton (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Craig White (artist) (Cover Artist)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Ace Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 0441003745
Page Count: 384

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3558.A443357 B58 2005
  • Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Some sexually explicit scenes and profanity

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Kiss the Dead
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • Hit List
  • The Laughing Corpse
  • Circus of the Damned
  • The Lunatic Cafe
  • The Killing Dance
  • Bullet

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • The Laughing Corpse
  • Circus of the Damned
  • The Lunatic Cafe

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