The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #4) by Laurell K. Hamilton ★★★★★

She gave that rich, bedroom laugh again. “I am alpha, Ms. Blake. I can do a great many things that most shifters cannot.” 

- Raina 

3rd Listen: Every book with Edward is better for it!
“I wanna play,” Edward said. 
“Just like that? You don’t know what I’m involved in, but you want a piece of it?”
“Following you around let’s me kill a lot people.”
Sad but true. 

2nd Listen: I had forgotten that she mounted the swan pelt: Anita the savage!

Shape shifters are going missing in St. Louis and the monsters won’t talk to the police, but they will talk to Anita Blake. They would have earlier if not for Richard. 

Bad Richard. 

This is the first book where things start to go south. Richard is too much her opposite. The sort of relationship with drag out fights before the first date. 
It just gets uglier.
Still a damn good story.
And I love the ones Edward is in.

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