Dead Until Dark

Dead Until Dark

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in the quiet rural town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's quite, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much- not because she's not pretty- she's very cute bubbly blonde- or not interested in social life. She really is… but Sookie's got a bit of a disability. She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable.

And then along comes Bill: he's tall, he's dark and he's handsome- and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she has been waiting all her life for.

But Bill has a disability of his own: he's fussy about his food, he doesn't like suntans and he's never around during the day… Yep, Bill's a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble- of the murderous kind.

And then one of Sookie's colleagues at the bar is killed, and it's beginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim…

True Blood, the TV adaption of the Sookie Stackhouse novels directed by Six Feet Under's Alan Ball, premiers on Foxtel's Showcase channel. True Blood has already taken America by storm, with the second series commissioned before the second episode was even aired, and sending all the Sookie novels straight back to the top of the New York Times bestsellers list! Anna Paquin won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Sookie in the True Blood series.
The whole series of Sookie books are being repackaged by Gollancz to tie in with the True Blood TV series.
Charlaine Harris is already a literary superstar, with the Sookie novels regularly appearing on the New York Times bestseller list. Charlaine Harris won a Edgar Award for Dead Until Dark.

Dead Until Dark
Hachette Australia
Author: Charlaine Harris
Price: $22.99