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A Touch of Dead – Sookie Stackhouse Short Stories
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A Touch of Dead is a compilation of the short stories written by Charlaine Harris that feature Sookie Stackhouse. The great thing about this book is that it will include all of the short stories in one place. This will be great for people who have already collected the books as well as those who haven’t.
Here’s a list of the current Sookie Stackhouse short stories and the books that they appear in:
| Short Story Title | Book Title | Gift Wrap | Wolfsbane and Mistletoe | Dracula Night | Many Bloody Returns | Fairy Dust | Powers of Detection | One Word Answer | Bite | Lucky | Unusual Suspects |
Here’s the entire listing (including A Touch of Dead) at Amazon: Sookie Stackhouse Short Story Books. A Touch of Dead will be released October 6, 2009.
Stay tuned: I plan to review each of the current books that contain Sookie Stackhouse short stories.
Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order
Posted by: | CommentsDon’t you just love the Sookie Stackhouse books? For your convenience, we’ve listed the entire collection of Sookie Stackhouse Books below IN ORDER:
#1
Title: Dead Until Dark
Description: We meet: Sookie, a telepathic waitress; Bill Compton, a sexy vampire; Sam Merlotte, Sookie’s boss who has a secret; and Jason, Sookie’s womanizing brother. Check prices
#2
Title: Living Dead In Dallas
Description: Sookie gets called to Dallas to help locate a missing vampire; we’re introduced to the radical group The Fellowship of the Sun; Sookie almost loses her life. Check prices
#3
Title: Club Dead
Description: Bill disappears and Sookie sets out to find him; Sookie meets the hunky werewolf Alcide; Bubba, our golden-voiced vampire crooner, helps Sookie; Sookie learns that Bill has betrayed her. Check prices
#4
Title: Dead To The World
Description: Eric loses his memory and temporarily moves in with Sookie (yum); Jason is kidnapped; a group of dark witches comes to town. Check prices
#5
Title: Dead As a Doornail
Description: Someone is killing members of the local shifter community; Sookie gets pulled into Alcide’s werewolf pack politics; fingers point at Sookie regarding the recent disappearance of a female shifter. Check prices
#6
Title: Definitely Dead
Description: Sookie travels to New Orleans to close the apartment of a recently deceased relative; we learn the real reason for Bill’s betrayal; we learn more about Sookie’s heritage. Check prices
#7
Title: All Together Dead
Description: Sookie attends a vampire summit and dead bodies start piling up; Sookie spends time with hunky Quinn; Sookie attends an hilarious vampire wedding. Check prices
#8
Title: From Dead to Worse
Description: Sookie tries to help the vampire queen of Louisiana and ends up being targeted for murder; a werewolf war is brewing; we learn some secrets about Sookie’s background. Check prices
#9
Title: Dead and Gone
Description: The shifter community comes “out of the closet” to the world; a shifter is killed outside Merlotte’s; a new vampire king wants to use Sookie to his advantage. Check prices
#10
Title: Dead In The Family
Description: After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the recent war, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and angry. One bright spot in her life is the love she thinks she feels for vampire Eric Northman. But there are still some Fae on the human side and one of them is angry at Sookie. Very, very angry… Check prices
#11
Title: Dead Reckoning
Description: Merlotte’s, the bar where Sookie works, is attacked and anti-shape shifter groups are at the top of the suspect list. While dealing with this issue Sookie gets drawn into Eric and Pam’s plans to overthrow their current leader, a plot that could damage not just the vampires, but Sookie as well.Check prices
Charlaine Harris also writes short stories about our gal Sookie. Here are the books that include short stories about Sookie. These books are great because they provide additional insight and background information on Sookie, Eric, Bill and Sam!
Book: Sookie Stackhouse Companion (will be released August 2011)
Short Story: Small Town Wedding
Description: Sookie and Sam travel together to Sam’s brother’s wedding. The book also contains a section where “Sookie” answers common questions asked by fans!
Book: A Touch of Dead
Short Story: contains several, see below
Description: This book contains quite a few Sookie Stackhouse short stories: Fairy Dust, Dracula Night, One Word Answer, Lucky and Gift Wrap.
Book: Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
Short Story: Gift Wrap
Book: Many Bloody Returns
Short Story: Dracula Night
Book: Powers of Detection
Short Story: Fairydust
Book: Bite
Short Story: One Word Answer
Book: Unusual Suspects
Short Story: Lucky
Book: Between the Dark and the Daylight
Short Story: Lucky
Book: Death’s Excellent Vacation
Short Story: Two Blondes
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Sookie Stackhouse Book 6 – Definitely Dead
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In Definitely Dead our lovable telepathic waitress is summoned to New Orleans by the vampire queen of Louisiana. It seems that Sookie’s recently deceased cousin Hadley was the queen’s vampire lover. Sookie needs to travel to New Orleans to clean out her cousin’s apartment and attend several vampire events. Sookie isn’t looking forward to either event. She knows there’s more to her cousin’s death than meets the eye because let’s face it, vampires don’t just die. Additionally she knows she’ll probably run into Bill and Eric at the vampire events and she’d rather avoid both of them. She’s still mad at Bill for his betrayal and she’s afraid Eric will find out what happened a few months prior when he had amnesia and temporarily lived with Sookie.
But at least there’s one bright side to going to New Orleans: Quinn, the sexy, uber-male were-tiger will be there and perhaps they’ll be able to spend some time together. Sookie really likes Quinn and enjoys dating a warm-blooded, albeit still supernatural, creature.
Shortly after arriving at Hadley’s apartment Sookie and Amelia, a hip witch who owns Hadley’s apartment building, discover a dead body on the premises. This solidifies Sookie’s suspicion that Hadley was murdered and that it’s somehow tied to the recent marriage of convenience between the queen of Louisiana and the vampire king of Arkansas. Thus Sookie sets out to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding Hadley’s death and find out why someone dumped a dead body in Hadley’s apartment. This places Sookie and those around her in the crosshairs of a murderer and she must rely on shrewd intelligence and her contacts within the supernatural community in order to survive.
With Definitely Dead author Charlaine Harris delivers another well-written and exciting entry in the popular Sookie Stackhouse fantasy book series. In this book we see Sookie growing as a character. She uses her knowledge of the supernatural community and its inner workings to good advantage and as such, comes across as a smart and capable protagonist.
This book sheds light on two secrets that will shock and amaze readers: one deals with Bill’s initial appearance in Bon Temps and the other involves Sookie’s heritage. I didn’t see either of these storylines coming and was open-mouthed shocked when I read about them.
I’m constantly delighted at how Charlaine Harris juggles so many new characters and sub-plots while keeping the series fresh and exciting. Definitely Dead is no exception and Harris’ ability to tie everything together will undoubtedly please fans of mystery and fantasy genres alike. You can get Definitely Dead online from America’s superstore (hmmn, just America – it’s probably “the world’s superstore” by now) or from local booksellers.