Charlaine Harris's latest venture is a series about a telepathic barmaid in
southern Louisiana. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark,
won the Anthony for best paperback mystery of 2001, and the fifth, Dead as a Doornail,
comes out in May 2005.
Each book about Sookie Stackhouse (and her dealings with vampires and
werewolves and other creatures of the night) has gathered more readers
to enjoy the books' unique blend of mystery, humor, romance, and the supernatural.
The Sookie books are also being read in Japan, Spain, Greece, and Great Britain.
In October Berkley Prime Crime will publish Charlaine's latest, Grave Sight, launching the new Harper Connelly series.
In addition to her work as a writer, Harris is married and the mother of three teenagers. A former weight lifter and karate student, she is an avid reader and cinemaphile. She is a member of the vestry of St. James Episcopal Church.
Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance.
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's pretty and well-mannered and has only a few close friends-which isn't surprising, since not many people can appreciate Sookie's abilities as a mind reader. It's not a quality that has the guys beating down her door-unless they're vampires, werewolves, or other supernatural beings. And nowsome of them aren't just friendly-they're family.
When Sookie sees her brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time-a transformation he embraces more readily than most shapeshifters she's known. But her concern for her brother becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason's new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter.
Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks-unless the killer decides to find her first...
For more information, see charlaineharris.com.