Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton will be the seventeenth installment in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Set out to be released on June of 2009, Hamilton promises another spine-tingling, suspense and mystery adventure. As with her other previous Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books, the story is set in a society where vampires, lycanthropes, faeries and other supernatural beings are accepted as part of the society. This time, though, a vampire serial killer sends Anita a ghastly souvenir from Sin City.

Our resident necromancer heads off to Las Vegas to help the authorities and to warn them of what they’re dealing with; but when she arrives there, Anita discovers the paranormal style of killing of ten officers and one executioner. Edward and three other federal marshals are there to help her solve this case. She is especially glad that Edward is there; she feels too much of the weretigers around Las Vegas.

While a lot of Hamilton’s fans have stopped reading her books due to an increase in sex scenes, I think she deserves another chance. I admit that there are times where she has used this in an unnecessary way, she has, nonetheless, been a very good storyteller. Her intricate way of transforming Saint Louis as we know it, injecting fantasy to the supposedly regular lives of Anita and the others, is enough to keep the readers hooked onto her novels. Skin Trade might introduce more plot twists and could be Hamilton’s way to entice her former fans to pick up where they left off. I know I’ll be one of her fans who’ll be waiting for Skin Trade by Laurell K, Hamilton to be released.

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Erika Ayala works part time for a consumer review company.