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Title details for Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton - Available

Skin Trade

#17 in series

by Laurell K. Hamilton
Kimberly Alexis
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Once you tell someone certain things–say, you got mailed a human head in a box–they tend to think you’re crazy.
Anita Blake’s reputation has taken some hits. Not on the work front, where she has the highest kill count of all the legal vampire executioners in the country, but on the personal front. No one seems to trust a woman who sleeps with the monsters. Still, when a vampire serial killer sends her a head from Las Vegas, Anita has to warn Sin City’s local authorities what they’re dealing with. Only it’s worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain–paranormal style. . . .
Anita heads to Las Vegas, where she’s joined by three other U. S. Marshals, including the ruthless Edward hiding behind his mild-mannered persona. It’s a good thing Edward always has her back because when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses “tiger” too strongly to ignore it. The weretigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher. . . .

  • Creators

  • Series

    Anita Blake

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    June 30, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415967447
      • File size: 528995 KB
      • Duration: 18:22:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 20, 2009
      Hamilton's 17th Anita Blake novel draws the vampire hunter into a game of cat-and-mouse with a particularly monstrous vampire named Vittorio. Aided by sadistic serial killer Otto Jefferies, convenient sociopath Edward and fanged escorts handpicked by her lover Jean-Claude, U.S. marshal Anita offers her services to Las Vegas, now under siege from Vittorio's army of enthralled preternatural beings. Manipulated by the cunning Vittorio and occasionally misled by coincidental events, Anita employs her insight into Vittorio's condition and weaponized libido as the decisive weapons in this struggle. The book is largely concerned with the melodramatic conflict between hunter and hunter and Blake's soap-operatic love life, but Hamilton does manage some genuinely moving passages, particularly those describing the terror of innocent vampires caught up in the arbitrary and draconian U.S. legal system.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kimberly Alexis takes over the narration of this series with a tough, no-nonsense voicing of vampire hunter and Federal Marshal Anita Blake. Blake's latest adventure begins when she receives a decapitated head at her office. The only one who could have sent it is the vampire serial killer Vittorio. Alexis contrasts Blake's voice with the softer tones of the supernatural beings--vampires, were-tigers, and witches. She gives the older ones cultured voices that make them seem even more menacing. The result is a fantastic world made more believable through Alexis's matter-of-fact reading. Fans of the series, and those who enjoy erotic fiction and the supernatural, will enjoy this seventeenth installment. E.N. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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