The Laughing Corpse
Laurell K. Hamilton · Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #2
Zombie-raiser Anita Blake hunts a killer corpse while navigating a world of voodoo, murder, and monsters.
Description
Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it.In The Laughing Corpse Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left buried-and some people better off dead...
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
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