Jeff's older sister, Ellie is lying in her bed, dead of a vampire bite. John, his wife Beth, Deputy Zack Coltraine, Mr. Anita tells Dolph that Magnus is part-fey and a potential suspect, then Anita and Larry drive to the home of Mr. Magnus also admits to destroying several trees outside the restaurant while in a drunken rage, causing Anita to consider him as a suspect for the recent killings.ĭuring dinner, Dolph pages Anita again, and asks her to assist on another possible local vampire crime.

After trying unsuccessfully to seduce Anita, Magnus is coy about why the Bouviers refuse to sell their land. By touching the restaurant patrons, he makes them irresistibly attractive for one night, in return for drawing some power for himself. Magnus is using glamour to host a date night. There, they meet Magnus and Dorrie, each of whom is part-fey. Larry is seriously shaken by viewing his first murder scene.Īnita and Larry then go to the Bouviers' restaurant, named 'Bloody Bones,' to investigate the land dispute and to get dinner. Anita warns Freemont that in her opinion, the boys were cut apart by a sword wielded by something as fast and strong as a vampire, with enough mental power to hold two of the boys motionless while killing the third.

Each of the boys' faces have been disfigured or removed, and Freemont reveals that a teenaged boy and girl were murdered earlier, with similar wounds. Anita inspects the murder victims-three teen-aged or younger boys cut apart with a blade. Anita and Larry drive to the scene and meet Sergeant Freemont, who appears to want to crack the case herself and resents their intrusion. Louis and also asks her to assist the local police with a nearby crime scene. Dolph asks Anita for advice on a crime scene back in St. If the corpses on the land confirm that it belongs to the Bouviers, Stirling's project will be unable to continue.Īfter reviewing the site and making plans to explore the site further that evening, Anita receives a call from Dolph. (She and Bert agree that although John Burke also has the power to make a good second, his pride is such that it's best that he not even learn that Anita took a job that he was not strong enough to take on his own).Īrriving in Branson, Anita meets Raymond Stirling, the lawyer in charge of the development project and his assistants, Lionel Bayard, Ms Harrison and Beau, and learns that Stirling is in a dispute with Magnus and Dorcas Bouvier, two siblings who claim to own the land at issue and refuse to sell. This time, her manager, Bert, is calculating a possible bid for a mass zombie raising in Larry along to boost her powers, and as a training experience. Like the previous novels, the novel opens with Anita considering a possible job. Bloody Bones begins on Saint Patrick's Day, shortly after the events of the previous Anita Blake novel, The Lunatic Cafe.

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