Best-selling author Laurell K. Hamilton's "The Laughing Corpse" continues-and welcomes back a fan-favorite vampire lothario! As the Executioner of St. Louis, Anita Blake has made her fair share of dirty dealings with the dregs of the underworld. And if Anita wants to solve the grisliest case of her career, it looks like she's going to have to make one more dark compact: this time with the newly crowned Master Vampire-Jean-Claude!