Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter The laughing corpse. Executioner. Book 3

Laurell K. Hamilton, Ronald Lim, Jess Ruffner-Booth — 2010

Anita Blake is offered a million dollars to raise a three-hundred-year corpse by mob-affiliated Harold Gaynor. As she ponders the proposition, a child goes missing, and her investigation leads to confrontations with voodoo priestess Dominga Salvador and an undead killer more powerful than any she's seen before.