Anita has to be one of the most rude, most obnoxious protagonists I've ever read. This book, more than any of the earlier books, set my teeth on edge.

While she is there, she learns that something is killing young boys AND a vampire is on the loose. Louis to head to Branson, Missouri, where she is being paid to raise an entire graveyard to see who owns the property (because, of course, Anita is the only one in this entire world who can do anything). Anita actually TAKES a client and leaves St. Well, LKH broke the formula with this book. This is an interesting thing to read in books where the lead character and heroin is not lawful good but is actually somewhere between Neutral Good and Lawful Neutral.'Why do I put up with you? You insult me at every turn.' Only with all the dangers around Anita Larry is now being forced to face the fact that Anita is known as the executioner for more than just her kill rate. Larry is strong but is still learning and so she's brought him as basically the equivalent of a back-up power source and she can train him at the same time. Now normally Anita wouldn't be able to raise zombies this old but she's brought her trainee Larry. Seraphina now royally outclasses Jean-Claude and they are lucky to leave alive except the missing boy is still missing. Seraphina, the local master was not too long ago considered to be a lesser master to Jean Claude but when they go to pay her a visit regarding a missing boy, they got out through political manipulation. The only problem is she's technically in another vampires territory and Jean-Claude has basically done the equivalent of a monarch/ruler flying into a hostile foreign country with no passport or visa and only one body guard. He flies to her with a familiar werewolf friend called Jason. She asks for help from her friendly neighbourhood Vampire Master Jean-Claude. Whilst assisting a young boy got kidnapped by vampires so Anita pulls out all stops to help try and save him so what does she do. Meanwhile there is a series of murders in the area that Anita's been called in to assist on.

last time it escaped it killed almost a whole tribe some 300 years ago so it doesn't seem to discriminate much. What we learn later on is that Bouvier is actually a fae from the unseelie court cursed to remain on those lands to ensure an ancient evil called Rawhead and Bloody Bones, a fae monster who was created to hunt and kill humans but predominantly misbehaving children. Mr Bouvier is fighting to save the rightful land of his ancestors saying the hills in question where ancient cemeteries of his ancestors. Mr Stirling the millionaire wants to build a hotel in the hills. Anita has been paid a small fortune to fly outside of the city to raise dead at an old burial site to help sort out a land rights issue.

Bloody bones novel