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Publisher's Blurb

"Readers cannot get enough of the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author.
A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blake as werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean-Claude as reigna and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen as new rise to power."

"What the Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel."
-- USA Today

"[A] wildly popular paranormal series."
-- Entertainment Weekly

Publication Date(s)

Debuted May 27th, 2008

ISBN

0-425222-195(HC)

Covers and Cover Art:

This is the proposed cover was from the US Hardcover of the book. The jacket design is by Judith Murello, the photograph itself is by (c) Jody Ake/Jupiterimages, and the photograph of the author on the back of the book is by Richard A. Nichols. Additional cover designs for North America and the UK can be seen here.

Synopsis

Now the old bastard's dying and I won't have time to forgive him before he dies...

Jason Schuyler is a werewolf. He's also one of Anita Blake's best friends, and sometimes her lover. And right now he needs her --not to be a vampire hunter, or a federal marshal, or a necromancer, or even for her rank in the werewolf pack, but because his father's dying. He needs Anita because she's a pretty woman who loves him, who can make him look like an everyday guy, who agrees to go home with him and help him say good-bye to the abusive father he never loved. The fact that Jason is about as much an everyday guy as Anita is a pretty woman is something they figure they can keep under the wraps for a couple of days in a small town. How hard can that be?

Really, by now, Anita Blake should know better.

Marmee Noir, ancient mother of all vampires, picks this weekend to make a move. Somehow, she has cut the connection that binds Anita and Jean-Claude, leaving Jean-Claude unable to sense what is happening. Dangerous even as she sleeps, buried in darkness for a thousand years somewhere beneath the old country of Europe, Marmee Noir reaches out toward power. She has attacked Anita before, but never like this. In Anita she senses what she needs to make her enemies tremble...
(from book jacket of Blood Noir)

For a more detailed summary of the book see here.here.


Primary Characters

• Anita Blake
• Nathaniel Graison
• Jason Schuyler

Recurring Characters

Richard Zeeman
Jean-Claude
Irving Griswold
Jamil
Shang-Da
Micah
Marmee Noir

New Characters

Alex Pinn- a weretiger that is a closeted news reporter
Crispin- a white weretiger from Las Vegas

Character Deaths

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Important Revelations

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Explanation of the title:

<Hamilton employs a practice of titling the novels after a location within each novel for most of the books in the series. List that reference here.>

Information on this Page has been Gathered from the Following Sources:

1. The Laurell K. Hamilton section on the Penguin Putnum Publishing website. See Links section for a web link
2. The Book: Blood Noir
3. Others, such as Wikipedia, the AB Compenium, LKH's site, etc.

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