ALL TOGETHER DEAD (Sookie Stackhouse #7) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 PAPERBACK: 323 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life—the shapeshifter Quinn—but also contend with the long-planned vampire summit. The summit is a tense situation. The vampire queen of Louisiana is in a precarious position, her power base weakened by…
DEFINITELY DEAD (Sookie Stackhouse #6) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 PAPERBACK: 324 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley—a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadley’s estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk. Someone doesn’t want Sookie looking too deeply into Hadley’s…
DEAD AS A DOORNAIL (Sookie Stackhouse #5) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 PAPERBACK: 295 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Sookie’s got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead – and to stop the fiend! Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She’s a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life – but things…
DEAD TO THE WORLD (Sookie Stackhouse #4) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 PAPERBACK: 321 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire – and ends up in the middle of a war between witches, werewolves and vampires! Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself – she has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie’s gift: she can read minds. That’s not exactly every man’s…
CLUB DEAD (Sookie Stackhouse #3) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz (UK) | Ace (US) RELEASE DATE: 2009 (UK) | 2003 (US) FORMAT: Paperback, 274 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Sookie Stackhouse always found it difficult to date – she’s cute, but not many guys are comfortable with her mind-reading abilities. But vampires have no problems with Sookie’s talent – she can’t pick up much of anything from the undead. But there’s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with – at least voluntarily – right now, and that’s Bill. But recently…
LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS (Sookie Stackhouse #2) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 FORMAT: Paperback, 279 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Waiting tables, sweeping floors, reading minds and solving mysteries for the undead. It’s all in a day’s work for Sookie… Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of real bad luck. First, her co-worker gets murdered and no one seems to care. Then Sookie is attacked – and poisoned – late one night by some weird and apparently mythical beast. She only survives because the local vampires roll…
DEAD UNTIL DARK (Sookie Stackhouse #1) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 FORMAT: Paperback, 312 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Sookie Stackhouse is a small time cocktail waitress in small town Louisiana. She’s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn’t get out much – not because she’s not pretty – she’s a very cute bubbly blonde – or not interested in a 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…
WOLFSBANE & MISTLETOE (Anthology) CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS: Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner, Donna Andrews, Simon R. Green, Dana Cameron, Kat Richardon, Alan Gordon, Carrie Vaughn, Dana Stabenow, Keri Arthur, Patricia Briggs, J.A. Konrath, Nancy Pickard, Karen Chance, Rob Thurman PUBLISHER: Gollancz (UK) | Ace (US) RELEASE DATE: Nov 2011 (UK) | Nov 2010 (US) FORMAT: Paperback, 405 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy The holidays can bring out the beast in anyone – particularly lycanthropes. Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner have harvested the scariest, funniest, saddest werewolf tales by an outstanding…
Title: Shakespeare’s Landlord (Lily Bard Mystery #1) Author: Charlaine Harris Publisher: Gollancz (UK) | Berkley Prime Crime (US) Publication Date: 2011 (UK) | 2005 (US) Format: Paperback, 224 pages Genre: Mystery Source: Review copy from publisher Reviewed by Carolyn Buy your copy from Amazon UK Kindle | UK Paperback | US Kindle | US Paperback OR The Book Depository SUMMARY: Disguising herself with short hair and baggy clothes, Lily Bard has started over in the sleepy town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, where – working as a cleaning lady – she can sweep away the…
Grave Secret (Harper Connolly #4) by Charlaine Harris Whole Story Audiobooks (Dec 2010) | Audiobook: 9h 58m Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan | Paranormal Mystery If you haven’t read of the Harper Connolly series before, it’s from the viewpoint of Harper a young woman who was struck by lightening in her teens and since then has been able to sense the dead. Not as in talk to the dead, but sense where they’re buried, how long they’ve been dead for and the cause of death. Since that fateful day she and her…
Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly #2) by Charlaine Harris Gollancz (Sept 2006) | Paperback, 295 pages Supernatural Mystery “If there were an emergency room for psychological shocks, we could go there,” he said. Harper Connelly – struck by lightning and now able to find dead bodies and see the details of their deaths – is back for a second book. This was another solid, quirky and fun mystery, with a lot of suspicion thrown Harper and Tolliver’s way this time. They’re caught up in so many coincidences that it definitely looks to outsiders…
Shakespeare’s Champion (Lily Bard #2) by Charlaine Harris Berkley (Dec 2006) | Paperback, 244 pages | Mystery Maybe if I took this step by step it wouldn’t be so bad? I glanced over at the still figure on the bench. No way to ease up to this. I’d just plunge right in. “Del Packard is here, and he got squashed,” I said. This is Charlaine Harris’ second Lily Bard book, but can be read as a standalone. The strength of the series builds with each one, with the complex and scarred…
Grave Sight (Harper Connelly #1) by Charlaine Harris Gollancz (Jan 2007) | Paperback, 320 pages Paranormal Mystery I adore Charlaine Harris’ quirky writing, and Harper Connelly is about as quirky as they come. You’re probably never going to come across another book where, thanks to being struck by lightning, the protagonist can find dead bodies. And you’re unlikely to find another author who can make such a ridiculous idea work. Harris is best known for her Sookie Stackhouse series, and Harper isn’t as popular or as loved, but I think she’s fantastic….
