Guilty Pleasures
core novel 1993 Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Record
| First published | 1993 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.04 (137,211 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441304837 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Guilty Pleasures is a 1993 horror-mystery novel by Laurell K. Hamilton, the first book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. It introduces Anita Blake, a licensed vampire executioner and zombie-raising animator who lives and works in an alternate version of St. Louis where vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings exist openly among humans. When the vampire Willie McCoy asks Anita for help investigating a series of vampire-related murders in the city's nightclub scene, she is drawn into the schemes of Nikolaos, the ancient and dangerous master vampire who rules the local undead community from behind the scenes. As Anita works to uncover who is truly responsible for the killings, she finds herself caught between rival supernatural factions, marked by the vampire Jean-Claude, and shadowed by the professional assassin Edward, all while trying to stay alive long enough to see the case through.
Where it sits
- Universe: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
- Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter core; position 1 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 1 of 30: next The Laughing Corpse (1994)
Sources
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