The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences.
Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won an Anthony Award.Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. The Sookie Stackhouse novels inspired the HBO television series True Blood, which ran for seven seasons. In addition to Sookie Stackhouse, she is the author of the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden mystery series the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring amateur sleuth Lily Bard the Harper Connelly mysteries two trilogies, Gunnie Rose and Midnight, Texas and stand-alone novels. Her performance brings a light Southern accent that enhances the local flavor and credibility of each story.Ĭharlaine Harris is a prolific New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. Narrator Johanna Parker inhabits Sookie - and breathes life into the undead and all kinds of creepy and kooky characters. Along with plot twists, romantic entanglements, intriguing characters, supernatural conflicts, and murder mysteries, this urban fantasy series hooks listeners with biting satirical commentary. If only she weren’t so powerless against her hunky vampire boyfriend, Bill. In each novel, she’s on the frontlines of trying to mitigate the havoc of otherworldly creatures on the human world of Bon Temps. Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic with a down-to-earth personality and spicy sense of humor, is uniquely qualified to deal with the weres (as in werewolves) and shape-shifters who have come out of their closets around the Bayou.
And, oh yeah, she hears the secret thoughts of all kinds of humans and other creatures. Sookie Stackhouse is a bubbly barmaid in Louisiana - with a vampire for a boyfriend.
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