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Kim Harrison

    1 gennaio 1966

    Kim Harrison crea mondi fantasiosi che spaziano attraverso molteplici generi, ottenendo riconoscimenti come autrice della serie Hollows, best-seller numero 1 del New York Times. La sua prolifica carriera va oltre il genere urban fantasy, includendo narrativa per giovani adulti, thriller e fantasy tradizionale pubblicata sotto altro nome. Il lavoro di Harrison è caratterizzato da una trama intricata e da uno sviluppo avvincente dei personaggi, che la rendono una narratrice versatile capace di coinvolgere costantemente i lettori in diversi paesaggi letterari.

    Kim Harrison
    A Perfect Blood
    Pale Demon
    The Witch With No Name
    Trouble With The Cursed
    Ever After
    Il demone malvagio
    • Il demone malvagio

      • 512pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      Secondo volume della serie con protagonista la strega Rachel Morgan, ex agente della Inderland Runner Services che ha deciso di lavorare per proprio conto come cacciatrice di taglie messe su demoni e vampiri criminali. Rachel continua a vivere con la sua amica Ivy – un vampiro – in un’antica chiesa nel cui giardino abita il suo aiutante, il folletto Jenks. Potrebbe essere una situazione normale, se non fosse per il continuo desiderio che Ivy ha di nutrirsi delle altre persone, per la lingua tagliente che Jenks non sa tenere freno e per l’incredibile abilità che Rachel ha di infilarsi sempre in situazioni al limite del mortale. Stavolta tutto inizia quando accetta di indagare su una serie di omicidi che sta gettando scompiglio in nella comunità di streghe della città. Il suo compito è quello di fingersi una studentessa del college, in modo da poter spiare un professore sul quale ricadono molti sospetti. Rachel però è convinta di star osservando la persona sbagliata, e che Trent Kalamack, colui che l’aveva costretta a combattere in una lotta fra ratti quando era trasformata in un visone, sia il vero colpevole, e tenterà di dimostrare la sua tesi a costo di correre pericoli inimmaginabili.

      Il demone malvagio
      4,3
    • Ever After

      • 435pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      When Rachel sets off a chain of events that could lead to the end of the world - demonic and human--she must use her gifts to save those closest to her while preventing an apocalypse.

      Ever After
      4,5
    • Trouble With The Cursed

      • 464pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      Rachel Morgan must keep her friends close—and her enemies closer—in the next Hollows novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison.Rachel Morgan, witch-born demon, has one unspoken rule: take chances, but pay for them yourself. With it, she has turned enemies into allies, found her place with her demon kin, and stepped up as the subrosa of Cincinnati—responsible for keeping the paranormal community at peace and in line. Life is . . . good? Even better, her best friend, Ivy Tamwood, is returning home. Nothing’s simple, though, and Ivy’s not coming alone. The vampires’ ruling council insists she escort one of the long undead, hell-bent on proving that Rachel killed Cincy’s master vampire to take over the city. Which, of course, Rachel totally did not do. She only transformed her a little. With Rachel’s friends distracted by their own lives and problems, she reaches out to a new ally for help—the demon Hodin. But this trickster has his own agenda. In the end, the only way for Rachel to save herself and the city may be to forge a new understanding with her estranged demon teacher, Al. There’s just one problem: Al would sell his own soul to be rid of her. . . .

      Trouble With The Cursed
      4,5
    • The Witch With No Name

      • 432pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      It's Rachel Morgan's ultimate adventure . . . and anything can happen in this final book by New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison.

      The Witch With No Name
      4,5
    • Pale Demon

      • 496pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      C ondemned and shunned for black magic, Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witches' conference in San Francisco to clear her name. If not, she’ll be trapped in the demonic ever-after . . . forever. But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy travelling 2,000 miles in one car is a recipe for disaster — not even counting the assassination teams waiting in ambush … or the demon they unleash in St. Louis. Now, after centuries of torment, a fearsome creature walks free, craving innocent blood and souls — especially Rachel Morgan’s, who’ll need to fully embrace her own demonic nature to survive. And even that may not be enough.

      Pale Demon
      4,5
    • Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in by the FIB to help investigate, former witch-turned-day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth: others want to create their own demons, and to do so they need her blood. She’s faced vampires, witches, werewolves, demons, and more—but this time Rachel’s toughest challenge might be humanity itself.

      A Perfect Blood
      4,4
    • Supernatural superhero Rachel Morgan must counter a strange magic that could spell civil war for the Hollows in this sexy and bewitching urban fantasy adventure in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison's Hollows series. Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now, strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering. Rachel must stop this dark necromancy before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the undead under control are lost and all-out supernatural war breaks out. Rachel knows of only weapon to ensure the peace: ancient elven wild magic, which carries its own perils. And no one know better than Rachel that no good deed goes unpunished . . .

      The Undead Pool. Bluthexe, englische Ausgabe.
      4,4
    • To save the city, Rachel Morgan will need to show some teeth in the next Hollows novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison. The new master vampire of Cincinnati has arrived . . . and she wants Rachel Morgan out. No matter where Rachel goes, Constance is there--threatening Rachel's allies, causing city-wide chaos, and, to add insult to injury, even forcing Rachel out of her current quarters. Ever since Rachel found a way to save the souls of vampires, the old undead's longtime ascendancy has been broken. Now Constance sees eliminating Rachel as the key to consolidating her own power. Rachel has no desire to be enthralled or killed--and she's terrified of what may become of the city if Constance forces a return to the ancient ways. But even a witch-born demon can't stand against the old undead--at least, not alone. And if Rachel refuses to claim the role of Cincinnati's master demon, the city will tear itself apart, taking her and all those who stand beside her with it.

      Million Dollar Demon
      4,4
    • Witch detective Rachel Morgan attempts to solve the mysterious death of her boyfriend by an emotion-sucking banshee. To exact her revenge on the killer, she brings in her PI partners--Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a pixie in existential crisis--along with empathic psychiatrist Ford and the banshee victim's father, Federal Inderland Bureau captain Edden

      White Witch, Black Curse
      4,4