Guilty Pleasures (#1 in Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Aside from the friends I've made blogging, I don't have very many friends who enjoy reading. In fact, none of them read like I do. So, when one of these friends recommends a book to me, I simply must check it out! One of my good friend, lent me her copy of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels. The first one, which is called Guilty Pleasures. From Amazon (because Goodreads had an awful description): Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees--with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting--to help figure out who and why. Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when her allies aren't human. The city's most powerful vampire, Nikolaos, is 1,000 years old and looks like a 10-year-old girl. The second most powerful va...