Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The Laughing Corpse, Book 1: Animator, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ron Lim

What would you do for a million dollars? Would you resurrect a two-and-one-half-century old corpse? Harold Gaynor poses just that question to Animator and part-time vampire hunter, Anita Blake... Plus, some crime scenes are even too horrible for a vampire slayer, and the worse they are, the more questions they raise.