Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton
Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton
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Skin Trade
An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Narrator: Kimberly Alexis

Unabridged: 18 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/11/2009

Synopsis

 
When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she 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.

About Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell Kaye Hamilton was born Laurell Kaye Klein in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in Sims, Indiana with her grandmother Laura Gentry. Her education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion College (now called Indiana Wesleyan University). She is an American fantasy and romance writer that is best known as the author of two series of stories.

Her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series centers on Anita Blake, a professional zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant for the police, which includes novels, short story collections, and comic books. Six million copies of Anita Blake novels are in print. Her Merry Gentry series centers on Meredith Gentry, Princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie, a private detective facing repeated assassination attempts.

Hamilton is involved with a number of animal charities, particularly supporting dog rescue efforts and wolf preservation. She currently lives in St. Louis County, Missouri, with her daughter Trinity, and husband Jonathon Green whom she married in 2001.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lorena on June 14, 2009

I swore I wasn't going to read any more of these, but I gave in and bought the Kindle version, since I definitely can't justify the shelf space for the actual hardcover books in this series anymore. First, the good stuff: relative to the last couple of books, anyway, this book actually had a PLOT, i......more

Goodreads review by Tilly on January 26, 2012

Skin Trade is a phenomenal book! The story, the plot, the characters and the relationships .. everything about this book just flat-out does it for me. Blake received a package that contained a human head. Eww, right? I mean .. who does that? I’d worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of th......more

Goodreads review by Wealhtheow on January 05, 2010

Hamilton burst into my awareness with Guilty Pleasures, a book that introduced us to a world where vampires were legal citizens, raising the dead was a viable career, and small women who collected penguin-themed tchotchkes could nevertheless be respected police consultants. Anita Blake was a young w......more

Goodreads review by Meagan on June 10, 2009

Let me begin my review with the caveat that Laurell K. Hamilton is definitely not for everyone. She has a lot of graphic sex and violence, and I am aware that over the course of the series she has lost a number of fans. I am aware of the literary shortcomings that will keep her from appealing to a l......more

Goodreads review by Robin on June 08, 2009

Well, I'm not sure this was enough to get me back into the Anita Blake fold, but I did like the book. Very much. It made me realize some things about the series, though. I hate Anita Blake. I think I've always known this, and I believe this is where my problem with heroin(e) started. All the guys wa......more

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