The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #02)

SUMMARY: Animator and vampire hunter Anita Blake is about to discover that some secrets are better left buried-and some people better off dead... Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it. In The Laughing Corpse Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left buried-and some people better off dead...

Animator and vampire hunter Anita Blake is about to discover that some secrets are better left buried-and some people better off dead?

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter for Animators, Inc., is offered a cool mil to raise a 283-year-old corpse. But she knows that "the older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it." Only a human sacrifice is "big" enough to raise this old soul--and Anita's no murderer. Original.

From back cover Jove paperback October 2002: "THEY WERE TREATING ME LIKE I WAS A VERY DANGEROUS PERSON. At five-three I am not imposing. Raise the dead, kill a few vampires, and people start considering you are one of the monsters. Sometimes it hurt. But now... it had possibilities. 'Do you really thing I came here unarmed?' I asked. My voice sounded very matter-of-fact... 'Want to bet your life on it?'"

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In The Laughing Corpse, a creature from beyond the grave is tearing a swath of murder through St. Louis. And Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left buried-and some people better off dead...

Anita Blake, a woman who has the power to reanimate dead bodies, refuses an offer of a million dollars to bring a three-hundred-year-old corpse back to life because the effort would require a human sacrifice, but when a less ethical animator takes the job, it is up to Anita to stop the resulting carnage "A series of grisly murders and subsequent zombie incarnations has Anita Blake assisting police with their investigation. However, as Anita attempts to find the culprit, she begins to discover her own power over the undead."--Midwest Tapes container The finest Animator in the business, Anita Blake finds her reputation, and her life, on the line when she encounters a powerful zombie, an undead monster who is leaving a trail of mayhem and murder across the city Anita Blake rejects a million-dollar offer to raise a 300-year-old zombie, but soon discovers that she needs all of her powers to battle the killer zombie and the voodoo priestess who raised it Vampire hunter Anita Blake is about to discover that some secrets are better left buried--and some people are better off dead Harold Gaynor's house sat in the middle of intense green lawn and the graceful sweep of trees. Another in the series about Anita Blake, vampire hunter and necromancer.