Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in a little bar in a small town deep in Louisiana. She's funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn't have that many close friends – mind you, that's not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It's not a quality that has the guys beating down her door – well, unless they're vampires or werewolves or the like …but they're not just supernatural freaks, some of them are friends, even family …And much as Sookie might want a quiet life, when she's around, things just seem to happen …like her brother, who appears to be changing into a were-panther. He's not that bothered, but someone doesn't like it – someone's trying to wipe him out, as well as the rest of the shape-changing population, and that mean's Sookie's got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead, and stop the fiend.

Author Biography

Charlaine Harris is the author of the New York Times bestselling series of supernatural romantic mysteries starring Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic bar maid, and a cast of vampires, werewolves and things that really do go bump in the night. Her new series is about a girl who makes her living finding the dead. She is married, with children.