Publisher, Recorded Books (May 2009)

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"One heck of a lot of the enjoyment came from the masterful performances by lead reader Christine Marshall. Her southern belle voice is so just much fun, she truly inhabits the role like no other reader I could imagine. But she didn't do it all alone; she's assisted by veteran reader, the always enjoyable William Dufris. Dufris shows an even broader range than I've ever heard from him before." --SFFAudio.com

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Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, well, Sookie has this sort of "disability." She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable.

And then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome -- and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for all her life.

But Bill has a disability of his own: he's a vampire with a bad reputation. He hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, all suspected of -- big surprise -- murder. And when one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next....

About the Author: Author Charlaine Harris won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Mystery for Dead Until Dark, the first novel in the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire mystery series. She is also acclaimed for her Lily Bard mysteries, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas. Harris and her family live in Arkansas along with their two dogs, two ferrets and one duck.