(She and Bert agree that although John Burke also has the power to make a good second, his pride is such that it's best that he not even learn that Anita took a job that he was not strong enough to take on his own).Īrriving in Branson, Anita meets Raymond Stirling, the lawyer in charge of the development project and his assistants, Lionel Bayard, Ms Harrison and Beau, and learns that Stirling is in a dispute with Magnus and Dorcas Bouvier, two siblings who claim to own the land at issue and refuse to sell. She agrees to take the job, and takes Larry along to boost her powers, and as a training experience. In Anita's opinion, she is the only person in the world who might be able to raise that many ancient unmarked graves without a human sacrifice. The graves are unmarked and may contain corpses at least 100 years old, Anita finds out later there are some that are much older than that, which will make the raising very difficult. Bert explains that a law firm is soliciting bids to raise an entire graveyard in order to determine who owns a piece of land needed for a resort complex. This time, her manager, Bert, is calculating a possible bid for a mass zombie raising in Branson, Missouri. Like the previous novels, the novel opens with Anita considering a possible job. In this case, the restaurant itself is named after a character in the novel, Rawhead and Bloody Bones, making the title somewhat eponymous.īloody Bones begins on Saint Patrick's Day, shortly after the events of the previous Anita Blake novel, The Lunatic Cafe. Hamilton employed the practice of naming each novel after a fictional location within the story for most of the Anita Blake series.

Within the book, 'Bloody Bones' is the name of a restaurant that is operated by two of the principal characters in the novel, Magnus and Dorcas Bouvier. As with its predecessors, Bloody Bones blends elements of supernatural, hardboiled and police procedural fiction.

This time, Anita travels to Branson, Missouri and is quickly enmeshed in a series of supernatural murders and disappearances that she and her vampire would-be lover, Jean-Claude must resolve.

Hamilton, the fifth book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series.īloody Bones continues the adventures of Anita Blake. Bloody Bones is a horror/mystery novel by American writer Laurell K.

Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton