A
book by
Laurell K. Hamilton. Copyright
1994. Published by
Ace Books. It is the second book in the
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series.
Something is running around brutally murdering people. Anita Blake is called in to help solve the case. Because the thing that killed these people wan't human and Anita Blake is an animator and a vampire slayer. She also has the Master Vampire of the city trying to make her his human servant and in the course of things she also pisses off the most powerful vaudun priest in the midwest.