Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris

Definitely Dead, the 6th book in the sookie stackhouse series, carries on quite quickly after Dead As A Doornail, following the werewolf succession fight, Sookie's problems with werefox Debbie Pelt's death and her diminishing relationship with Debbies ex, werewolf Alcide Herveaux. The main plot is set in New Orleans, where Sookies vampire cousin Hadley has died in mysterious circumstances and Sookie goes there to clear out her apartment. Hadley had been dating Sophie-Anne Leclerq, the vampire Queen of Louisiana whose political marriage to the King of Arkansas occurred the night before Hadley's death. Sookie soon becomes friends with Amelia ...  Read the complete review

Background: My book this week was a present from a friend. I recently baby sat her two children and instead of payment she asked me the authors I liked as she knew I loved reading. I told her I liked Charlaine Harris and luckily she picked one of the ones I hadn't already read. A very kind and thoughtful gesture I thought. About the author: Charlaine Harris was born in Mississippi in 1951. She has been writing for the last 25 years. Her main series are the acclaimed Lily Bard Mysteries and the Sookie Stackhouse series. The latter of which she has already written eight novels with a new one planned for the early part of 2009. The book I am ...  Read the complete review

Charlaine Harris first introduced us to the weird and wacky world of Sookie Stackhouse in 2001 when her first book, Dead Until Dark, was published. Definitely Dead is the sixth book in the Southern Vampires series and to fully appreciate it, it really is best to have read the previous five. In fact, there are eight books in this series so far, with the prospect of number nine coming next year. Sookie works as a waitress in a bar in small town Louisiana, living in a parallel reality to ours where vampires have recently revealed themselves to humans. This has come about because of the invention of synthetic blood which means that vampires no longer need to ...  Read the complete review