Obsidian Butterfly
core novel 2000 Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Record
| First published | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (67,266 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441006847 |
| Internal chronology | 9 |
Synopsis
Obsidian Butterfly is the ninth novel in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. Anita travels to New Mexico at the request of her friend and fellow assassin Edward, who needs her help investigating a string of gruesome killings carried out by an unusually skilled and sadistic serial murderer working the case alongside him. The trip removes Anita from her usual St. Louis surroundings and from the vampire and werewolf politics that have consumed her recent life, even as her ongoing efforts to manage her magical training continue to strain her relationships with both Richard and Jean-Claude back home. As she and Edward close in on the killer, later identified as the formidable Olaf, Anita is forced to confront a threat whose methods and motivations differ sharply from anything she has faced among the supernatural community.
Where it sits
- Universe: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
- Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter core; position 9 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 9 of 30: previous Blue Moon (1998) · next Narcissus in Chains (2001)
Sources
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