Amazon.com Review
Burnt Offerings is the seventh in Laurell K. Hamilton's genre-straddling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Anita carries a gun and an attitude: "Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly. Hard to be threatening when you look ill-informed."

As Burnt Offerings unfolds, Anita agrees to help track down a possible psychic firestarter. She's also policing the local werewolf pack, though she's split up with their alpha, Richard. Then Jean-Claude, the vampire Master of the City and her lover, needs her help to confront a visiting delegation of the vampires' ruling council. They wonder how he got the power to destroy a council member and believe him dangerous to the hierarchy.

This fast-paced, urban fantasy includes gore, hardboiled mystery and a romantic triangle. The vampires and werewolves are as three-dimensional as the human characters, allowing us to join Anita in wondering who the real monsters are and to understand how her increased personal involvement with them is alienating her from her human colleagues. --Nona Vero

So it hits sclose to hom ewhen an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned business, all over town - an arsonist who seems to want to destroy more than just property. It's the monsters who are in danger now. And it' sup to the Executionaer to save them from the inferno. ]

This is number 7 in the Anita blake series ( there are currently 14 in the series) If you liked the previous ones this will make you happy. If you've not read any of the precius ones then ther emight be too much backstory required here for this to be a jumping on point. I recommend number 4: if you don't want to read from the beginnning. This one won't recommend any of the established fans though.