Publisher Description

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much. She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he's tall, he's dark and he's handsome - and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting all her life for.But Bill has a disability of his own: he's fussy about his food, he doesn't like suntans and he's never around during the day... Yep, Bill's a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind.And then one of Sookie's colleagues at the bar is killed and it's beginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim...

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Meet Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic cocktail waitress in the quiet rural town of Bon Temps, Lousiana: she's found a boyfriend, and her life will never be the same again!

Author Biography

Charlaine Harris is the author of several New York Times bestselling series. She is married, with children and lives in Arkansas.

Review

A great mixture of paranormal thriller and laugh-out-loud fun * Fantasy Book Review *
Dead Until Dark is a hilarious adventure from start to finish * SF Site *
Harris is a master * Tor.com *

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Meet Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic cocktail waitress in the quiet rural town of Bon Temps, Lousiana: she's found a boyfriend, and her life will never be the same again!

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Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much. She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he's tall, he's dark and he's handsome - and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting all her life for.But Bill has a disability of his own: he's fussy about his food, he doesn't like suntans and he's never around during the day... Yep, Bill's a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind.And then one of Sookie's colleagues at the bar is killed and it's beginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim...

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A great mixture of paranormal thriller and laugh-out-loud fun

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Meet Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic cocktail waitress in the quiet rural town of Bon Temps, Lousiana: she's found a boyfriend, and her life will never be the same again!

Description for Sales People

TRUE BLOOD, Alan (SIX FEET UNDER) Ball's TV adaptation of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, has taken America by storm, with the second series commissioned before the second episode was even aired, and sending all the Sookie novels straight back to the top of the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller list!

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Sookie Stackhouse, a bubbly blonde cocktail waitress, lives in the quiet rural town of Bon Temps in Louisiana. She's telepathic - which makes finding a date a little difficult; after all, who wants to know what the guy thinks of you before you've even had a chance to impress? But when Vampire Bill comes into her life, Sookie thinks she's found the perfect beau: he's tall, dark and handsome and, best of all, his mind is a closed book to her: she cannot 'hear' a thing. So everything should be terrific for Sookie . . .until a co-worker gets killed and it looks like Sookie's next . . . Alan Ball's TV series TRUE BLOOD, based around Sookie and Charlaine Harris' quirky Southern mysteries have taken America by storm - and in 2009 it comes to the UK, giving Sookie a chance to become as big a hit as Dexter was!

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