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True Blood Collection: Dead Reckoning, Dead in the Family, a Touch of Dead, Dead and Gone, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, All Together Dead and More
The Sookie Stackhouse Novels True Blood Collection.
Dead Reckoning
Dead in the Family
A Touch of Dead Dead
Gone Dead To The World
Dead as a Doornail
All Together
Dead Club
Dead Definitely
Dead Dead Until Dark
From Dead to Worse
Living Dead in Dallas
Dead Reckoning
Dead in the Family
A Touch of Dead Dead
Gone Dead To The World
Dead as a Doornail
All Together
Dead Club
Dead Definitely
Dead Dead Until Dark
From Dead to Worse
Living Dead in Dallas
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Published May 27, 2011
About the author
Charlaine Harris
282 books35.9k followersCharlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance.
Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination.
Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences.
When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, Dead Until Dark broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who simply enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, was very successful in many languages.
The Harper Connelly books were written concurrently with the Sookie novels.
Following the end of Sookie's recorded adventures, Charlaine wrote the "Midnight, Texas" books, which have become a television series, also. The Aurora Teagarden books have been adapted by Hallmark Movie & Mystery.
Charlaine is a member of many professional organizations, an Episcopalian, and currently the lucky houseparent to two rescue dogs. She lives on a cliff overlooking the Brazos River.
Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination.
Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences.
When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, Dead Until Dark broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who simply enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, was very successful in many languages.
The Harper Connelly books were written concurrently with the Sookie novels.
Following the end of Sookie's recorded adventures, Charlaine wrote the "Midnight, Texas" books, which have become a television series, also. The Aurora Teagarden books have been adapted by Hallmark Movie & Mystery.
Charlaine is a member of many professional organizations, an Episcopalian, and currently the lucky houseparent to two rescue dogs. She lives on a cliff overlooking the Brazos River.
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October 3, 2019
I didn’t actually read this book. This is a placeholder for Liz’s manuscript which I read: The Dead and the Gone
July 2, 2013
I was actually impressed, not with the writing of course, but with the magic realism in books 2-8. It also was better than many "series" books I've read where the stories are basically recycled versions of each other (the Janet Evanovich series for one). While the conflicts were often similar in that they involved someone or multiple people wanting to kill the main character, they varied enough to feel new and unpredictable from book to book. More importantly, the relationships between characters evolved and people changed throughout the series rather than staying stale versions of themselves from previous books. Another positive was the main character, who despite being somewhat irritating at first, managed to strike a good combination between confident, self-effacing, and forthright. Unlike in many of the books I've read, particularly those not based in our "reality", I could actually understand and agree with many of the decisions Sookie made. Her logic was often strong and her shrewdness and candor made her a somewhat admirable heroine. Until the end of the series....Somewhere towards the last few books, plots get convoluted and extremely illogical and characters lose their integrity, acting in ways inconsistent with their behavior in the previous books. Unfortunately, the "who does she end up with?" question, something any female reader will have a vested interest in by the time she has read all 13 books, did not get resolved to my liking and if you want to hear the myriad of reasons why, just check the amazon book reviews and you'll find some of the most negative reviews out there. On the other hand, despite my disappointment and resentment towards the author for "dropping the ball" at the end of the series, I will say that it took me about only a week to read all the books and they were entertaining, so if you are looking for a guilty-pleasure to pass some time along, I would recommend this series to you.
February 9, 2012
I really enjoyed the Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse in the True Blood Collection.
I have ready #s 1-8 so far. They range from a 3-3.5 as fun, tongue in cheek, Vampire - lit. The books are far better than the HBO TV series, though I do enjoy watching them for what they are. The author's candidness and humour are not picked up in the TV Series, which strives to make it all far more dramatic and focused on Vampiric-Human couplings.
There are not only Vampires, but the whole gambit of fairy tale creatures to deal with in the various books, such as Werewolves, shape shifters,witches, Fairies etc.
Enjoyable reads if you are into this kind of stuff!
I have ready #s 1-8 so far. They range from a 3-3.5 as fun, tongue in cheek, Vampire - lit. The books are far better than the HBO TV series, though I do enjoy watching them for what they are. The author's candidness and humour are not picked up in the TV Series, which strives to make it all far more dramatic and focused on Vampiric-Human couplings.
There are not only Vampires, but the whole gambit of fairy tale creatures to deal with in the various books, such as Werewolves, shape shifters,witches, Fairies etc.
Enjoyable reads if you are into this kind of stuff!
September 21, 2012
I have read all the Charlaine Harris; Sookie collection. I love this series. I gave this a 5 star although I do not feel this way about all the books in the series. Some are more exciting than others.
September 29, 2011
I love True Blood this is an excellent collection!
September 9, 2012
last three best book nine i believe has a hard to read torture scene that i did not see how sookie did not see coming
re read the series when i get bored
re read the series when i get bored
Want to read
January 29, 2013favorite series ever!
October 29, 2012
Super different from the show, but SO good
February 5, 2013
Love it!
May 20, 2013
Loved this series. Murder, mystery, and supernatural romance.
October 27, 2013
Fell in love with the book series after watching the first season of the HBO series True Blood. The books are so different of course then and the TV series but enjoy both.
March 21, 2014
Loved it!!
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June 8, 2017Brilliantly done, far better than the TV series!
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