Hamilton, Laurell K

Anita Blake is used to zombies, being a necromancer that can raise the dead and put them back to rest, but a new disease is creating a new kind of zombie that hunts in daylight and are as fast and strong as vampires.

Vampire hunter Anita Blake--known to the vampires she kills as "The Executioner"--is hired by the most powerful vampire in the city to find out who has been murdering innocent vampires.

Once a sworn enemy of all vampires, Anita Blake has become the not-quite-human beloved of both master vampire Jean-Claude, and Micah, a leopard shape-shifter. When Jean-Claude's oldest ancestor sends a vicious emissary to destroy him and his clan, Anita must summon all her strength to defend those she loves.

Anita Blake, a licensed vampire executioner in an alternate Earth where preternatural beings coexist with humans, is summoned to New Mexico by Edward, a monster hunter to whom she owes a favor, who needs help determining who or what is committing the gruesome crimes that leave victims dismembered and skinned alive.

Anita Blake lives a dual life as animator and vampire hunter, with a man she loves on both sides of her life, but when she becomes a wanted woman, she must choose between the two men or risk all their lives.

Anita Blake is called in to investigate a case involving a vampire serial killer who preys on strippers, but as the consort of Master Vampire Jean-Claude, she finds it hard to be totally objective.

Once a sworn enemy of all vampires, Anita Blake has become the not-quite-human beloved of both master vampire Jean-Claude, and Micah, a leopard shape-shifter. When Jean-Claude's oldest ancestor sends a vicious emissary to destroy him and his clan, Anita must summon all her strength to defend those she loves.

It's up to Anita to prove Richard's innocence when he is jailed on assault charges, but in doing so she pits herself against corrupt cops and the Master Vampire, Jean-Claude, who threatens her and her friends.

Preternatural expert Anita Blake is hired to raise a couple of two-hundred-year-old corpses to settle a dispute over who owns the land they are buried in, but she runs into trouble when she realizes she has stumbled into the middle of someone else's spell.

The leader of the local werewolf pack, Marcus, has come to Anita Blake, expert in the preternatural, to help him find eight missing members of his pack and she agrees to help him although her boyfriend, Richard, is in competition for leadership of the pack.