Dead Until Dark

Sookie Stackhouse works as a waitress in a bar in Bon Temps, a small town in northern Louisiana. She lives a quiet life without much in it apart from her family and her job. She doesn’t date or have much of a social life because most of the inhabitants of Bon Temps think that she is crazy. Sookie is not crazy but she is afflicted or gifted (depending how you look at it) with the ability to read minds.

Unable to stand the constant noise of other peoples thoughts that she usually has to listen to she has become fairly reclusive. Into her life comes the tall, dark and handsome Bill. Bill is just perfect for Sookie because she can’t hear his thoughts. Unfortunately Bill has an affliction of his own; he’s a vampire and over a hundred years older that Sookie.

Dating a vampire in small town rural America might be hard enough but when women who have been known to date vampires start being murdered it becomes a lot harder. When one of Sookie’s coworkers is killed, swiftly followed by an attack on her grandmother, Sookie has to believe that she might be next. In an effort to stop her vampire boyfriend being arrested for the murders and to avoid being the murderer’s next victim herself, she starts to use her telepathic ability to try and find the killer.

I listened to Book One in Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhosue series, the narrator, Johanna Parker, did an excellent job of drawing me into the world of Bon Temps and it's happenings.  If I had not been involved in the book blogging world, I would never have been introduced to this series.  I look forward to book 2, Living Dead In Dallas.  My son recently brought home the True Blood series on DVD and now I have to decide if I want to start watching it or wait until I've read the series.