You can't help but love Ms. Anita Blake. She has two safety blankets one is her Browning Hi-Power 9mm the other is a stuffed toy penguin that goes by the name of Sigmund.  These two items give you a good insight to her personality, the gun shows that she doesn't like to be messed with (and god help anyone who does).  The penguin appeals to the softer side, the side which made her wear a hideous pink taffeta dress to her friends wedding.

Anita is in her mid-twenties (24 at the beginning in Guilty Pleasures), and stands a little over five foot with a slender build.  She is fit, due to jogging with her friend Ronnie, and her trips to the gym.  She has black curling hair which spills just over her shoulders.  Her solid black-brown eyes almost match her hair colour.  Her pale skin (from her father) stands out against her dark features (from her mother).

“Germanic against the Latin Darkness. A very ex-boyfriend once described me as a little china doll.  He meant is as a compliment.  I didn’t take it that way”

The 'Monsters' call Anita 'The Executioner', which is appropriate seeing as she has killed more people, vampires, and other creatures than she can count.  She is a woman of her word, and if she says she is going to shoot you, then she will shoot you.

Anita studied at Collage and works for a company called Animators Inc.  She makes a living by using her rare talent as an Animator and raising the dead.  We're not talking about the living dead, but more like rotting corpses, zombies as they are so fondly referred as.  Anita's talent is very advanced and is able to raise corpses that have been as old as 300 years and more and has yet to try and raise a corpse that wouldn't rise.  But not only is she able to raise Zombies, she has also been known to raise Vampires while they 'sleep'.  She is able to make them look as life like as any human.  She also helps the local R.P.I.T ( ) Police Department.

As far as men go, she had a bad experience when she was in collage with someone who she thought loved her, and after sleeping with her, promptly dumped her.  It took Anita long time to get over this, but when Jean-Claude and Richard were both into her life, how could she not want them?

Anita's mother died when she was still only 8 years old, and remembers the scene clearly.  Her father remarried, and Anita felt as though she never really fitted into the family after that.  But then finding out you have the ability to raise the dead, by bringing your dog back to life, is sure to throw any parent off.

Anita is the Lupa of Thronos Rokke Clan, Nimir-ra of the Blooddrinkers Clan (Léoparde Lionné) and also Jean-Claudes Human servant.

Anita is a fan of coffee, and rarely drinks anything else (especially not diet drinks or alcohol).  She once said it was hard to trust anyone who didn't drink coffee. Her boss Burt has his staff bring in their own mugs for a more 'personal' touch, Anita seems to have the knack of bringing in 'unsuitable' mugs.