Blood Noir
core novel 2008 Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.89 (43,430 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780425222195 |
| Internal chronology | 16 |
Synopsis
Blood Noir is the sixteenth novel in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. Anita accompanies her friend Jason Schuyler to his hometown in North Carolina so that he can attempt to reconcile with his dying father before it is too late, a personal errand that quickly becomes complicated when Jason is repeatedly mistaken for his look-alike cousin Keith, whose father is a sitting governor weighing a run for the presidency and drawing considerable media attention. Amid the resulting scandal and scrutiny surrounding the governor's family, Anita finds herself contending with the ancient, dangerous vampire known as the Mother of Darkness, who exploits Anita's supernatural ties to a pair of tiger shapeshifters, Crispin and Alex, to draw her into encounters she would rather avoid.
Where it sits
- Universe: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
- Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter core; position 16 of 30 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Notes
- From the series record (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter): The long-running main sequence, mixing full novels and a few shorter novellas, following vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake; still active as of the latest update.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: position 16 of 30: previous The Harlequin (2007) · next Skin Trade (2009)
Sources
← Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter dossier · All universes
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