Background
Laurell Kaye Hamilton was born on February 19, 1963, Laurell Kaye Klein in Heber Springs, Arkansas, United States.
2018
Laurell K. Hamilton at DragonCon 2018.
Laurell's education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion College (now called Indiana Wesleyan University).
Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton with her readers and fans.
Laurell K. Hamilton with her readers and fans.
(Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in t...)
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 hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other...
https://www.amazon.com/Guilty-Pleasures-Anita-Vampire-Hunter-ebook/dp/B0030MTPU6/?tag=2022091-20
1993
(First time in trade paperback: the third novel in the #1 ...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Circus-Damned-Anita-Vampire-Hunter-ebook/dp/B000OCXIMQ/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(Vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake is an expe...)
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 not-so-human heart. Dating a werewolf with self-esteem issues is stressing Anita out. Especially when something-or someone-starts taking out the city's shapeshifters.
https://www.amazon.com/Lunatic-Cafe-Anita-Vampire-Hunter-ebook/dp/B000Y8EPTA/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave four uns...)
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 spooked.
https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Bones-Anita-Vampire-Hunter-ebook/dp/B002YKOX8E/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(In the sixth adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselli...)
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 hitman... 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 Zeeman is the sexiest junior high school teacher she’s ever seen.
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Dance-Anita-Vampire-Hunter-ebook/dp/B000OIZVCA/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter backlist lights up the ni...)
The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter backlist lights up the night. In her eighth adventure, Anita Blake can't turn her back on a former lover during the full moon. Especially since he's behind bars-and he's a werewolf...
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Moon-Anita-Vampire-Hunter-ebook/dp/B000OIZVCK/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton ...)
#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...
https://www.amazon.com/Obsidian-Butterfly-Anita-Vampire-Hunter/dp/0515134503/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(In her tenth adventure, nothing can save vampire hunter A...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Narcissus-Chains-Anita-Vampire-Hunter-ebook/dp/B000OIZVDO/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(Vampire hunter Anita Blake finds her life is more complic...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Incubus-Dreams-Anita-Vampire-Hunter/dp/B07KCFC67D/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Vampire hunter Anita Blake is called on to raise the dead...)
Vampire hunter Anita Blake is called on to raise the dead - while trying to suppress her ever-growing feelings for a certain wereleopard.
https://www.amazon.com/Micah-Hamilton-Laurell-Market-Paperback/dp/B00E2RQD9O/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(Into Anita Blake's world - a world already overflowing wi...)
Into Anita Blake's world - a world already overflowing with power - come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.
https://www.amazon.com/Harlequin-Anita-Blake-Vampire-Hunter/dp/B07KCHCNDS/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(A favor for a friend puts Anita Blake in the center of a ...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Noir-Anita-Vampire-Hunter/dp/0515146374/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(A vampire is on a murder spree in Sin City in this Anita ...)
A vampire is on a murder spree in Sin City in this Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. 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 style. Anita heads to Vegas, where’s she’s joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward hiding behind his mild-mannered persona. It’s a good thing Edward always has her back, because, when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses “tiger” too strongly to ignore it. And the weretigers are powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone very powerful the wrong way just got a lot higher…
https://www.amazon.com/Skin-Trade-Anita-Vampire-Hunter/dp/0515148059/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(The triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude, ne...)
The triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman has made Jean-Claude one of the most powerful vampires in the U.S. -with the result that assassins are coming to St. Louis to kill them all.
https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Anita-Blake-Vampire-Hunter/dp/B003OXTOJI/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murderi...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Hit-List-Anita-Vampire-Hunter/dp/B0054N6IC2/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(When a 15-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up ...)
When a 15-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.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Kiss+the+Dead+hamilton&i=audible&ref=nb_sb_noss
2012
(Some zombies are raised. Others must be put down. Just as...)
Some zombies are raised. Others must be put down. Just ask Anita Blake. Before now, she would have considered them merely off-putting, never dangerous.
https://www.amazon.com/Affliction-Anita-Blake-Vampire-Hunter/dp/B00DM7A7MY/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Zombies and voodoo collide in this Anita Blake, Vampire H...)
Zombies and voodoo collide in this Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. Becoming the fiancée of master vampire Jean-Claude is wreaking havoc with Anita Blake’s reputation as a hardass - to some extent.
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Anita-Blake-Vampire-Hunter-ebook/dp/B00OQS4DJG/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necroma...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Crimson-Death-Anita-Vampire-Hunter/dp/110198774X/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(Vampire hunter Anita Blake has always managed to overcome...)
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 the first trip she gets to take with just wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel.
https://www.amazon.com/Serpentine-Anita-Blake-Vampire-Hunter/dp/0425255689/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series...)
In this novel 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 shapeshifter.
https://www.amazon.com/Cerulean-Anita-Blake-Vampire-Hunter/dp/0515136816/?tag=2022091-20
Laurell Kaye Hamilton was born on February 19, 1963, Laurell Kaye Klein in Heber Springs, Arkansas, United States.
Laurell's education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion College (now called Indiana Wesleyan University), a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Marion, Indiana that is affiliated with the Wesleyan Church denomination.
Hamilton’s first novel, Night seer, sets the tone for her entire body of work, laying out a world where the existence of magic, demons, and other supernatural phenomena are taken as ordinary.
Hamilton’s next book is part of the popular “Star Trek: The Next Generation” series, based on the popular Star Trek television series of the same name, Nightshade. Reviewers noted that Hamilton’s book sits well within the “Star Trek” series, even though her style is at times heavy-handed. As Hugh M. Flick Jr. writes in Kliatt, “The horrors of runway pollution are clearly spelled out to even the most undisceming reader.”
Guilty Pleasures, Hamilton’s next offering, kicked off what would become her signature series. Several reviewers praised Hamilton for her creative vision. Don D’Ammassa writes in a Science Fiction Chronicle review that Hamilton’s alternate world makes “all the setting for a tough detective story that works reasonably well.”
Hamilton’s next novel was Death of a Darklord.
Hamilton currently lives in St. Louis County, Missouri.
(In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series...)
(A favor for a friend puts Anita Blake in the center of a ...)
2008(Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in t...)
1993(The triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude, ne...)
2010(In the sixth adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselli...)
1997(Into Anita Blake's world - a world already overflowing wi...)
2007(Vampire hunter Anita Blake finds her life is more complic...)
2004(In her tenth adventure, nothing can save vampire hunter A...)
2001(Vampire hunter Anita Blake is called on to raise the dead...)
2006(A vampire is on a murder spree in Sin City in this Anita ...)
2009(When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave four uns...)
1996(Zombies and voodoo collide in this Anita Blake, Vampire H...)
2015(In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necroma...)
2016(Animator and vampire hunter Anita Blake is about to disco...)
1994(A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murderi...)
2011(Vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake is an expe...)
1996(Anita Blake has been asked to raise the dead-but the resu...)
2010(First time in trade paperback: the third novel in the #1 ...)
1995(Anita is having her own relationship growing pains with h...)
2014(In the thralls of supernatural passion, Anita Blake faces...)
2006(Vampire hunter Anita Blake has always managed to overcome...)
2018(When a 15-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up ...)
2012(The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter backlist lights up the ni...)
1998(#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton ...)
2000(Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else se...)
1998(Some zombies are raised. Others must be put down. Just as...)
2013Hamilton is involved with a number of animal charities, particularly supporting dog rescue efforts and wolf preservation.
Laurell has her favourite pet - pug Sasquatch.
Laurell met Gary Hamilton in Marion, Indiana. They were married. The couple has one daughter, Trinity. Her current husband Jonathon Green (they married in 2001).