Welcome to the new law -
Vampires have been granted equal rights under the law in the United States of America. Most of the
world thinks they are
people too.
Vampires just have pointy teeth, don't need a steady supply of oxygen and function with a permanent iron deficiency and therefore should have the same rights as everyone else. What those people don't know, is that they are the monsters that walk among us. As the regional vampire executioner, Anita Blake, bears the scars they inflicted on her and has seen their victims. She is an Animator which gives her a leg up on the big bad uglies so she helps out with the special police unit - R.P.I.T - Regional Preternatural Investigative Team. R.P.I.T was created to take on the crimes that are determined to involve non-humans - whether they are the victims or the killers. Anita is called in when even the experts have no clue. They've learned that more people die when she is not brought in sooner. If she can keep the death toll down, then one more crime scene, one more nightmare is a price she is willing to pay. Laurell K. Hamiltons, "Guilty Pleasures," takes you into a dark world of lust, violence and the mystical with a wit that carries through the pages and leaves you wanting more. Anita's complexity and spunky can do attitude mixed in with a huge chunk of stubbornness gets her into more trouble than she can take on as she is unwillingly drawn into investigating a series of Vampire murders. Someone is hunting down the most powerful Vampires in the city of St. Louis in a bid to take over the city and now the vampires have come to the one person they fear the most - the Executioner, Anita Blake, for help. Laurell K. Hamilton shares the world view through Anita's eyes which is peppered with beauty and spoiled by the beasties that walk the night. If you are looking for the ultimate Science Fiction Paranormal novel that rises from a great recipe for fantastic reading - beauty, death, lust, blood, guts and gore topped off with mystery and hard hitting humor - snuggle up for the night, grab your favorite stuffed penguin and prepare to meet Anita.