Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton (Laurell Kaye Hamilton) is a US SF writer, best known for her "Anita Blake series" of supernatural mystery thrillers. Her works often include relatively explicit sex scenes and romance subplots.

Hamilton has said of her strong female characters:

I started reading a lot of hardboiled detective fiction—Robert B. Parker in particular—and I read a lot of strong female protagonists. But there was one problem, a difference between the male and female protagonists of the different series—even the strongest of the women did not get to do some of the things the men got to do. [...] I thought this was unfair. So I wanted a heroine who would be as tough as the men or tougher, who would be able to address all these issues, and I wanted to strike a blow for equality. I may have gone a little far in that direction.

Bibliography

Anita Blake series

1. Guilty Pleasures (1993) ISBN 0-515-13449-X
2. The Laughing Corpse (1994) ISBN 0-425-19200-8
3. Circus of the Damned (1995) ISBN 0-515-13448-1
4. The Lunatic Cafe (1996) ISBN 0-425-20137-6
5. Bloody Bones (1996) ISBN 0-425-20567-3
6. The Killing Dance (1997) ISBN 0-425-20906-7
7. Burnt Offerings (1998) ISBN 0-515-13447-3
8. Blue Moon (1998) ISBN 0-515-13445-7
9. Obsidian Butterfly (2000) ISBN 0-515-13450-3
10. Narcissus in Chains (2001) ISBN 5-558-61270-3
11. Cerulean Sins (2003) ISBN 0-515-13681-6
12. Incubus Dreams (2004) ISBN 0-515-13449-X
13. Micah (2006) ISBN 0-515-14087-2 (novella, released February 28, 2006)
14. Danse Macabre (2006) ISBN 0-425-20797-8 (released June 27, 2006)
15. The Harlequin (2007)

Meredith Gentry series

1. A Kiss of Shadows
2. A Caress of Twilight
3. Seduced by Moonlight
4. A Stroke of Midnight
5. Mistral's Kiss (Just released)
6. A Lick of Frost (forthcoming)

Others

• Nightseer
• Nightshade (Star Trek: The Next Generation authorized novel #24)
• Death of a Darklord (TSR's Ravenloft series.)
• Club Vampyre (Anita Blake collection, published by the Science Fiction Book Club, includes the first three novels in the series: Guilty Pleasure, The Laughing Corpse, and Circus of the Damned)
• Midnight Cafe (Anita Blake collection, published by the Science Fiction Book Club, includes the fourth through sixth novels in the series: The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, and The Killing Dance)
• Black Moon Inn (Anita Blake collection, published by the Science Fiction Book Club, includes the seventh and eighth novels in the series: Burnt Offerings and Blue Moon)
• Out Of This World (1st 100 pages of Narcissus in Chains)
• "A Clean Sweep" (first story in Superheroes, a 1995 anthology)
• Cravings (anthology, 2004)
• Bite (anthology, 2004)
• Strange Candy (14 published and unpublished short stories, released November 2006)