Charlaine Harris

In Dead to Worse, Sookie is trying to get her life back to normal after the explosion in Rhodes.  But there are some things making that challenging.  Her boyfriend is missing, she discovers a long lost relative or two, and has both were and vampire politics invading her life (what else is new?).  So much for back to normal.  A lot of things are cleared up in this story and some new things are

This was Charlaine Harris's first novel, and it has been reissued in paperback, to our great delight.  Her work showed great promise even in the beginning, and this murder mystery is steeped in Southern tradition.  You can feel the summer heat, hear the flies buzzing...  Catherine Linton has returned to her hometown after the death of her parents six months earlier.  When she finds the nurse who worked for Dr. Linton beaten to death, Catherine realizes that her parents really were murdered, and she could be next...

Blurb: Wealthy businessman Martin Bartell gives Roe exactly what she wants for their wedding: Julius House. But both the house and Martin come with murky pasts.

I don't know how Charlaine Harris makes everything so bizarre seem so real, but, whatever her secret is, I wish I knew it!  This latest entry into the Southern Vampire series pulled me into her mysterious northern Louisiana realm once again.  Sookie has a missing boyfriend, gets mixed up in a Were war and a hostile takeover of Vampire territory, while trying to keep her head on straight, avoid reading minds, and just incidentally, not getting killed.  (And we think we have it tough...)

I don't know why but the whole way through this book I was picturing Aurora as this old short little woman like the Edna Mode in the Incredibles or something.  I know she was supposed to be young, only like thirty, but for some reason I just couldn't see her that way.  I was interested in the mystery although I found it just a tad predictable.  The two men in Edna's life are both odd and I didn

I quite liked this one. Tied up some loose ends, gave us some more insight on Sookie's background, and resolved at least one of the romantic situations - all things I found well done and interesting.

A Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery- I found this Saturday while out browsing. It is not released until Tuesday so I will go back then and pick up the book to add to my collection. This was good but not as humorous as some of the others.

This is the first Sookie Stackhouse "Southern Vampire" mystery.  I've read others in the series and was curious as to what started it all out.  Good for lovers of vampire fiction who wonder what it would be like if the Japanese invented synthetic blood and they could "come out of the coffin," so to speak.  When barmaids who date vampires start getting killed, Sookie becomes a target.  Could it be her Casanova-like brother, Jason, as the police suspect, Sookie's new boyfriend, Bill the Vampire, or is it someone else? 

Blurb: Going to two wedding-one of a former lover-and a funeral for a member of her disbanded crime discussion group keeps Aurora "Roe" Teagarden quite busy for a few months.