Anita Blake vampire hunter

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.

Anita Blake, a woman who has the power to reanimate dead bodies, refuses an offer of a million dollars to bring a three-hundred-year-old corpse back to life because the effort would require a human sacrifice, but when a less ethical animator takes the job, it is up to Anita to stop the resulting carnage.

Vampire hunter Anita Blake must shift her attention from catching vampires to helping them when she is hired to stop a serial killer from murdering any more vampires.