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?
Charlaine Harris has some ingenious concepts in her Sookie Stackhouse series, and gives due credit to Anne Rice's work with Louisiana vampires.
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