The Southern Vampire Mysteries · #9 / 13

Dead and Gone

Charlaine Harris

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Now an HBO original series, True Blood — the New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.

Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps — and nothing about weres.

Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works — and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it.

But there’s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings — older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves — is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.

Published
May 3, 2009
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Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris didn’t just bring vampires into small-town America—she made them feel like your eccentric neighbors down the street. With a knack for blending the eerie and the everyday, Harris carved out a distinctive space in fantasy and mystery, where Southern charm meets supernatural chaos. Born in Mississippi and raised in the heart of the South, Harris grew up surrounded by stories—ghost tales whispered on porches, family secrets that lingered like fog, and a cultural richness steeped in shadow and folklore. That upbringing shaped her voice: grounded in the rhythms of rural life, but always with one eye on the things that lurk just…