Dead
and Gone
Series: Southern Vampire series, book 9
Pub: 2009, Gollancz
Author: Charlaine Harris
Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)
Format: paperback (lar); 312pp w/ 18
chapters
Age Range: Adults
Synopsis
Sookie
Stackhouse enjoys her job as a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, even
though she sometimes gets tired of the constant chatter – and not just the
gossip; Sookie can read minds. Its taken time, but she’s finally found cute,
dateable guys whose minds she can’t read. And okay, so most of them happen to
be vampires, but no man is perfect, right?
All
of the humans in Bon Temps have had dealings with the vamps – mysterious,
seductive creatures who ‘came out’ a few year back. Now the weres and shifters
have decided to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the
ordinary world.
Sookie
already knows about them, of course – her brother turns into a panther at the
full moon, she’s friend to the local Were pack, and Sam, her boss at Merlotte’s
bar, is a shifter.
The
great Were revelation goes pretty well at first – then the horribly mutilated
body of a were-panther is found in the parking lot of Merlotte’s. Though Sookie
never cared that much for the victim, no one deserves such a horrible death,
and she agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer.
What
Sookie doesn’t realise is that there is far greater danger than this killer
threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful and far
more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves is preparing for war. And
Sookie if an all-too human pawn in their ages-old battle...