Skin Trade
core novel 2009 Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.95 (40,323 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780515148053 |
| Internal chronology | 17 |
Synopsis
Skin Trade is the seventeenth novel in the Anita Blake series. It opens with an urgent call from Edward, a lethal supernatural mercenary and one of Anita's oldest allies, warning her that an ancient vampire named Vittorio has surfaced in Las Vegas. Vittorio is running an operation that captures and exploits supernatural beings, treating weretigers, vampires and other creatures as commodities for profit and using their bodies and powers to expand his reach. Anita, a federal marshal and necromancer, travels to Vegas to help dismantle the trafficking ring, deliberately leaving most of her usual romantic and combat support behind so that Vittorio cannot use them as leverage against her. Once there she must build new alliances with local weretiger clans, other marshals and Vegas law enforcement, some of whom are compromised, while the shadow of the ancient vampire Marmee Noir looms over the growing crisis.
Where it sits
- Universe: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
- Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter core; position 17 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 17 of 30: previous Blood Noir (2008) · next Flirt (2010)
Sources
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