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Dead Until Dark

The Southern Vampire Mysteries #1 / 13
by Charlaine Harris
Dead Until Dark (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #1) by Charlaine Harris
★ 7.60 / 439

Small town Louisiana has a big problem – or rather a number of big problems. And now some of them have come knocking on Sookie's door... Sookie is an unassuming cocktail waitress in an (outwardly) unremarkable town. She's quiet, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much. Attractive as she is, her hidden "talents" send men running. For some reason her mindreading skills are just a bit threatening...

Then the unreadable Bill appears on the scene. Tall, dark and handsome, Bill seems to be the man of her dreams. Except he's not technically human. Bill is a vampire and a vampire who keeps seriously bad company, some suspected – unsurprisingly – of murder. Things get a bit close to home when a co-worker is murdered and Sookie starts wondering whether she will be next...

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Updated October 31, 2016
Category: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal romance, Shapeshifters, TV series, Vampires, Werewolves
Release date: 2001
Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951 in Tunica, Mississippi) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over twenty years. She was raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she wrote plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later.

After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched a lighthearted series "starring" Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden, with Real Murders, a Best Novel nominee for the 1990 Agatha Awards. Harris wrote eight Aurora titles. In 1996, she released the first of the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses. Shakespeare's Counselor, the fifth - and last - was printed in fall 2001.

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After Shakespeare, Harris created The Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series about a telepathic waitress who works in a bar in the fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The first of these, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each book follows Sookie as she tries to solve mysteries involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The series, which now numbers nine titles, has been released worldwide.

Sookie Stackhouse proved to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of Six Feet Under, announced he would undertake the production of a new show for HBO based upon the books. He wrote and directed the pilot episode for that series, True Blood, which premiered in September of 2008. It was an instant success and was quickly picked up for a second season.

In October 2005, Harris's new mystery series about a young woman named Harper Connelly debuted with the release of Grave Sight. Harper has the ability to determine the cause of death of any body. There are now three Harper titles (GRAVE SIGHT, GRAVE SURPRISE, AN ICE COLD GRAVE) with a 4th (GRAVE SECRET) to be released in 2009.

Harris has also co-edited three very popular anthologies with her friend Toni L.P. Kelner. The anthologies feature stories with an element of the supernatural, and the submissions come from a rare mixture of mystery and urban fantasy writers.

Professionally, Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. Personally, Harris is married and the mother of three. She lives in a small town in Southern Arkansas and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously!

The Southern Vampire Mysteries

Series contains 13 primary works and has 18 total works. Current series reading order on below.

Also known as the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Dead Until Dark (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #1)
★ 7.60 / 439
Living Dead in Dallas (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #2)
★ 7.52 / 348
Club Dead (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #3)
★ 7.54 / 297
Dead to the World (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #4)
★ 8.12 / 270
Dead as a Doornail (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #5)
★ 7.46 / 238
Definitely Dead (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #6)
★ 7.64 / 224
All Together Dead (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #7)
★ 7.76 / 216
From Dead to Worse (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #8)
★ 7.52 / 198
Dead and Gone (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #9)
★ 7.60 / 186
Dead in the Family (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #10)
★ 7.12 / 159
Dead Reckoning (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #11)
★ 6.88 / 138
Deadlocked (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #12)
★ 6.92 / 127
Dead Ever After (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #13)
★ 6.62 / 115
A Touch of Dead
★ 6.54 / 13
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
★ 7.00 / 2
After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse
★ 4.50 / 4
Dancers in the Dark & Layla Steps Up: The Layla Collection
★ 8.00 / 1
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
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