Circus of the Damned - Abridged
An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book #3
- By: Laurell K. Hamilton
- Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
- Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Description
First time in trade paperback: the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for the first time-a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other plans. And to make matters worse, Anita takes a hit to the heart when she meets a stunningly handsome junior high science teacher named Richard Zeeman. They're two humans caught in the crossfire-or so Anita thinks.
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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series
Guilty Pleasures
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon).
Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural ... Read more »
Guilty Pleasures - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon).
Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural ... Read more »
The Laughing Corpse
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
The early Anita Blake novels find new life in trade paperback-as perfect collectibles for long-time fans or as great ways for new readers to sink their teeth into the series.
In The Laughing Corpse, a creature from beyond the grave is tearing a swath of murder through St. Louis. And Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left... Read more »
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The Laughing Corpse - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The early Anita Blake novels find new life in trade paperback-as perfect collectibles for long-time fans or as great ways for new readers to sink their teeth into the series.
In The Laughing Corpse, a creature from beyond the grave is tearing a swath of murder through St. Louis. And Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left... Read more »
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Circus of the Damned
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
First time in trade paperback: the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for the first time-a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other... Read more »
Circus of the Damned - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
First time in trade paperback: the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for the first time-a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other... Read more »
The Lunatic Cafe - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
First time in trade paperback: the fourth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake is an expert at sniffing out the bad from the good. But in The Lunatic Cafe-now in trade paperback for the first time-she's about to learn that nothing is ever as it seems, especially in matters of the... Read more »
The Lunatic Cafe
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
First time in trade paperback: the fourth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake is an expert at sniffing out the bad from the good. But in The Lunatic Cafe-now in trade paperback for the first time-she's about to learn that nothing is ever as it seems, especially in matters of the... Read more »
Bloody Bones - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake is an expert in the kinds of preternatural goings-on that have everyone... Read more »
Bloody Bones
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake is an expert in the kinds of preternatural goings-on that have everyone... Read more »
The Killing Dance - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the sixth adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Anita Blake’s unique skills make her a wanted woman—by vampire, by werewolf, and by a hit man...
Though she’s dating a vampire and a werewolf, Anita is keeping them at arm’s length. Which isn’t easy considering that Jean-Claude is the master vampire of St. Louis and Richard... Read more »
The Killing Dance
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In the sixth adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Anita Blake’s unique skills make her a wanted woman—by vampire, by werewolf, and by a hit man...
Though she’s dating a vampire and a werewolf, Anita is keeping them at arm’s length. Which isn’t easy considering that Jean-Claude is the master vampire of St. Louis and Richard... Read more »
Burnt Offerings
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No
Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno. Read more »
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Burnt Offerings - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno. Read more »
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Blue Moon
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
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In Blue Moon, Anita Blake's ex, high school teacher and sexy lycanthrope Richard, has been thrown in jail for attempted rape. With an entourage of vampires and werewolves, even this preternatural expert knows all is not right in Myerton, Tennessee. Read more »
Blue Moon - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“With a heroine as sharp as a stake and slick as a silver bullet, Laurell K. Hamilton sucks you into her fascinating world like a vampire’s kiss.”—J. D. Robb
Danger makes the world go ‘round in Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling novels. Just ask Anita Blake, vampire hunter. Right now, her problems lie with her ex-fiancé—a werewolf who just got... Read more »
Obsidian Butterfly - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face...
Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters, vampires, shapeshifters, anything and everything. There are... Read more »
Obsidian Butterfly
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 19 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face. . . .
Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters, vampires, shapeshifters, anything and everything. There... Read more »
Narcissus in Chains
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Length: 22 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In her tenth adventure, nothing can save vampire hunter Anita Blake from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity. Read more »
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Cerulean Sins
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
Length: 15 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In this audiobook in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, vampire hunter Anita Blake learns what it's like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline—and just how far she’ll let herself get pushed around.
Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire, and Micah, the leopard... Read more »
Incubus Dreams
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
Length: 27 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Vampire hunter Anita Blake finds her life is more complicated than ever, caught as she is between her obligations to the living-and the undead. Read more »
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Micah
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Rey Colette
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Vampire hunter Anita Blake is called on to raise the dead-while trying to suppress her ever-growing feelings for a certain wereleopard. Read more »
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Danse Macabre
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
Length: 21 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In the thralls of supernatural passion, Anita Blake faces a most human dilemma. Read more »
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The Harlequin
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Into Anita Blake's world-a world already overflowing with power-come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their na Read more »mes. Learn more
Blood Noir
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A favor for a friend puts Anita Blake in the center of a full-blown scandal that threatens master vampire Jean- Claude's reign-and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's new rise to power. Read more »
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Skin Trade
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 18 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal st Read more »yle. Learn more
Skin Trade - Abridged
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal st Read more »yle. Learn more
Flirt
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Anita Blake has been asked to raise the dead-but the results aren't going to make everybody happy... Read more »
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Bullet
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Mother of All Darkness-the first vampire-wants to enter into a new human body...and the one she has in mind belongs to Anita Blake. Read more »
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Kiss the Dead
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she’s faced with something she’s never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people—kids, grandparents, soccer moms—all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there’s one martyr, there... Read more »
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Affliction
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 19 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Micah’s estranged father lies dying, rotting away inside from some strange ailment that has his doctors whispering about “zombie disease.”
Anita Blake makes her living off of zombies—but these aren’t the kind she knows so well. These creatures hunt in daylight, and are as fast and strong as vampires. If they bite you, you become just like them.... Read more »
Jason
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"Enjoying pain with your pleasure is something you either get, or you don't. If you get it, then you don't really need it explained, because you know how good it feels, and if you don't get it then no amount of talking is going to convince you it makes sense."
But sometimes you have to explain the unexplainable, especially if the love of your... Read more »
Dead Ice
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 20 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. She’s a U.S. Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claude’s fiancée.
It’s wreaking havoc with her reputation as a hard... Read more »
Serpentine
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Vampire hunter Anita Blake has always managed to overcome everything she faces. But this time there’s a monster that even she doesn’t know how to fight...
A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita’s fellow U.S. Marshal and best friend, Edward. For Anita, the vacation is a welcome break, as it’s... Read more »
Sucker Punch
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an execution planned—but what if the wrong person is about to be killed?
When a fellow U.S. Marshal asks Anita Blake to fly to a tiny community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on an emergency consult, she knows time is running short. When she arrives, there is plenty of proof that a young wereleopard killed... Read more »
Rafael
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Rafael, king of the wererats, must fight to the death to defend his crown. He wants Anita Blake, one of his closest allies, with him as he faces an opponent unlike any he’s faced before. He will ask Anita to risk everything to be at his side.…
But some of the wererats fear that Rafael depends too much on Anita and her ties to the vampires.... Read more »
Strange Candy
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author's short story collection-including an all-new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story.
From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, from a girl who seeks sanctuary in the form of a graceful goose to the disgruntled superhero Captain Housework,... Read more »
Crimson Death
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 24 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns that evil is in the eye of the beholder...
Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. The rising sun doesn’t usher in the peaceful death that he desperately needs. Instead, he’s being bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats.
... Read more »
Wounded
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 1 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Be proud of Life’s battle scars, it means you were stronger than whatever hurt you, and you didn't die—and Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and U.S. Marshal will be the first to show you hers in this sweet and sexy story of celebration and connection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton.
Anita attends the wedding of her close... Read more »
Hit List
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect “monsters” are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.
But some monsters are very real—and even to speak their name can earn you a death... Read more »
Beauty
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The steamy outtake that takes readers even further into Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling novel, Kiss the Dead.
You’d think I’d get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would forever surprise me.
With a vampire like Jean Claude around,... Read more »
Dancing
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Length: 1 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Vampire hunter Anita Blake leaps into uncharted territory in the all-new novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton.
For most people, summer barbecues are nothing to be afraid of. But Anita isn’t exactly plain vanilla—and neither is her love life. So it takes a special kind of courage to attend a barbecue thrown by her... Read more »