DEAD AND GONE

Book 9 in the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries

by CHARLAINE HARRIS

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New softcover book, published 2010, 312 pages.

For Sookie Stackhouse, the day-to-day activities of the vampire and Were communities in and around Bon Temps, Louisiana, are of vital interest. She's blood bound to the leader of the vampires, is a friend to the local Were pack, works for a man who is a shifter, and has a brother who is a werepanther.

But for most of the folks in Bon Temps, the vamps are mysterious, seductive creatures - and they know nothing about the Weres.

Until now. The Weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world.

At first it seems to go well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works. The victim is someone she knows, so she feels compelled to discover who - human or otherwise - did the deed.

But there's a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings - older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves - is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle .....

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About the author

Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Now she lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, her three children, three dogs, and a duck. The duck stays outside. Charlaine is the author of the Aurora Teagarden series about a Georgia librarian; the Lily Bard series, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, featuring a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences; the Sookie Stackhouse novels (aka the Southern Vampire Mysteries) , about a telepathic cocktail waitress and her adventures with her paranormal friends, acquaintances and enemies; and the Harper Connolly series, about a woman who is struck by lightning and is able to find corpses and determine how they died. In addition to juggling characters and plots for her popular series, Harris has also contributed short stories and novellas to several anthologies of paranormal fantasy fiction.

In addition to her work as a writer, Charlaine is the past senior warden of St. James Episcopal Church, a board member of Mystery Writers of America, a past board member of Sisters in Crime, a member of the American Crime Writers League, and past president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. She spends her “spare” time reading, watching her daughter play sports, traveling, and going to the movies.

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Dead and Gone Sookie Stackhouse Book 9 - Charlaine Harris