A TOUCH OF DEAD

The Sookie Stackhouse Stories

by CHARLAINE HARRIS

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New softcover book, published 2009, 194 pages.

Sookie Stackhouse is everybody's favourite cocktail waitress: a cute, bubbly blonde ... who can read minds. She enjoys her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte's, a small-town bar in small-town Bon Temps, deep in Louisiana. Sookie's funny and pretty and, thanks to her grandmother, she's very well-mannered - but since not many people truly appreciate her ability to read their minds, the guys haven't exactly been beating down her door... And then along came Bill, tall, dark and handsome - and Sookie couldn't 'hear' a word he was thinking. He was exactly the type of guy she'd been waiting all her life for. Of course, Bill had a disability of his own: fussy about his food, not into suntans, bit of a night person: yep, Bill was a vampire. But at least now Sookie knows there are guys she can date who won't worry about her catching them thinking about other women... And that's going to make Sookie's life really interesting!

A Touch of Dead collects together 5 fabulous Sookie Stackhouse short stories in one gorgeous volume, and showcases the writing talents of international bestseller Charlaine Harris. All the favourites from the Southern Vampire novels are here too - Sam, Terry, Bill, Eric, Pam, Claude and Claudine, Bubba and more.

The box set of Books 1 - 8 in the Sookie Stackhouse series is available - click here

Dead and Gone, Book 9 in the series, is also available - click here

Dead in the Family, Book 10 in the series, will be published on May, 2010

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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A Touch of Dead: The Sookie Stackhouse Stories - Charlaine Harris