Books by Laurell K. Hamilton
“Blake is a professional animator, which means her job is to go out and animate zombies. That’s just part of life. You have professionals who can do that for a number of reasons: maybe you need to yell at your mom, because she was terrible to you and your therapist thinks you should confront her – so you can animate her zombie and do that. Or maybe there’s some court thing that needs to be decided, so you hire an animator to get testimony. There’s a number of good reasons to go out and animate the dead – and Anita Blake gets hired to do this sort of thing. As a result, she has contact with the supernatural world in general, particularly with vampires. So when there’s a problem, she often gets asked to look into it, and she evolves from her initial job as an animator into a PI character. This world is full of vampires and werewolves and all these different things that go bump in the night, and they replace the standard cast of your typical PI novel: the stoolies and thugs and gangsters. These books are full of action and intrigue and sex, and all the things that make us want to keep turning the pages to see what happens next. I just love that!” Read more...
The Best Fantasy Mystery Books
Jim Butcher, Novelist
Interviews where books by Laurell K. Hamilton were recommended
The Best Fantasy Mystery Books, recommended by Jim Butcher
Fantasy and mystery blend beautifully because PIs and wizards occupy the same role, says Jim Butcher, bestselling author of The Dresden Files. He tells us about the inspiration for his own PI, Harry Dresden, and introduces us to his top five fantasy mysteries: stories where our modern urban fears can be explored, and where metaphorical and literal underworlds meet.
