The Laughing Corpse / Laurell Hamilton / 293 pages / November Challenge Zombies

Set in St. Louis and accompanying suburbs, this book features Anita Blake, vampire slayer.  Anita is an animator working closely with police.  Alternate lifestyles are now legal, i.e., vampires, zombies, etc.  Someone has asked Anita to animate an infamous bad man and she refuses.  Perhaps someone else has done so, because innocents are being brutally murdered.  Is the Voodoo witch involved?  Can Anita catch the slayer before he kills again?