Product Description

Sookie doesn't have that many relations, so she hated to lose one p- but of all the people to do, she didn;t expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a consort of New Orleans' vampire queen - after all, Hadley was technically already dead. But she is gone, beyond recall, and she's left Sookie an inheritance - one that comes with a bit of a risk - not least because someone doesn't want Sookie digging too deep into Hadley's past - or her possessions. Sookie's life is once again on the line, and this time the suspects range from the rogue werres who reject Sookie as a friend of the pack to her first love, the vampire Bill. Sookie's got a lot to do if she's going to keep herself alive . . .

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42200 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Better and even better!
These stories just get better and better. When I reviewed her 5th. novel in this series, I said that that was the best yet. Now Charlaine Harris has gone one better. Her main characters have become more rounded; we understand a little more about Sookie's family background and we are introduced to some extra supes in this book which extend the family of 'strange' people down in Louisiana.

The book moves us away from her previous main supernaturals, Eric and Bill, to concentrate further up the vampire hierarchy. As ever, murder, mayhem, Sookie's rather feminine yet gutsy attitude all lead us to riot and carnagefest as a grand finale.

For light yet fascinating reading, this is a series I hope will live as long as the vampires!

Definitely Dead
In the sixth Southern Vampire novel to star Sookie Stackhouse the telepathic waitress of Bon Temps, La., is off to (pre-hurricane) New Orleans to close out her dead cousin Hadley's apartment.

Hadley's death six weeks earlier had been unexpected, since, as a vampire, she was already dead. Still, she'd led a lively existence as the main squeeze of the Queen of Louisiana, an omnisexual vampire, whose political marriage to the King of Arkansas occurred the night before Hadley's demise.

Sookie and Amelia Broadway, Hadley's landlady and a pretty cool witch, immediately discover a mess of trouble left behind in Hadley's closet, and Sookie's soon neck-deep in even more.

This series just gets better and better! I read the last 2 books back to back so it was like having a big bumper Sookie instalment. Sookie has matured so much since the beginning of this series, well I guess she would have!

Once again we don't see as much of Bill & Eric as I would have liked but, they are still there though in small quantities, what we do see though is Sookie's new squeeze, Quinn. He is a Were-Tiger and brings an interesting slant to proceedings, whilst not as likeable as Bill & Eric he is a good and interesting character but, doesn't quite have the edge as the other two.

Another brilliant and addictive book!

Adding more depth
Another excellent installment of the ongoing supernatural adventures of Sookie Stackhouse, mainly set in 'Vampire Central' New Orleans. Each book in the series has been slightly longer and had more depth than the previous one and this adds more still. Although a little confusing to start with, as it refers to events relating to Sookie's cousin Hedley's death which are not depicted in a previous novel, its soon back on familiar ground with intrigue, murder and Sookie's increasingly tangled love-life (like other reviewers I have been somewhat disappointed by Sookie's carousel of suitors - and am a die-hard Eric fan myself. That said, this book focuses very much on plot and the twists and turns of vampire politics and is as entertaining and original as all the others in this truly great series.