This is the best tongue-in-cheek vampire story I have ever read.” “Read more than a few pages and you’ll find yourself hooked. And it’s one of the best vampire novels I’ve read in quite a while.” “This book’s intelligent mixture of painful, pleasurable, serious, skeptical and unexpected moments in a relationship where neither hero nor heroine can merge with the local norm, recalls the best kinds of magical realism. Perhaps you’ll never meet a more unlikely couple, but you won’t forget them either!” Best of all, she’s created an uniquely down-to-earth heroine in Sookie and an otherworldly charmer in Sookie’s beau, Bill. Harris weaves humor with an edginess that makes for taut reading. “An absorbing mix of romance, mystery and the supernatural. “The goofy charm of Harris’ world, with its humor and occasional terror, is what makes DEAD UNTIL DARK so delightful.”

Sookie Stackhouse Series Dead Until Dark (#1) Her house is full of rescue dogs.įind Harris on her website, or follow her on Twitter Read more She lives in central Texas, and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. She is mother of three wonderful children and the grandmother of two. Personally, Harris has been married for many years. She is also a member of Science Fiction Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and Romance Writers of America, just to make sure she’s covered. She is a past member of the boards of Sisters in Crime and MWA, and she has served as president of the MWA. Professionally, Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the American Crime Writers League, Sisters in Crime, and the International Crime Writers Association. She switched to novels a few years later, and achieved publication in 1981 with Sweet and Deadly. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.

She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. Her books have sold over 37 million copies worldwide, been translated into over 35 different languages, and has achieved the rate feat of having three separate series adapted for television: HBO’s True Blood, NBC’s Midnight Texas, and Aurora Teagarden on Hallmark’s Movies & Mysteries. Charlaine Harris is a multiple #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for forty years, and has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America - the field’s highest honor.

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