In Bon Temps, Louisiana, a race of unhuman beings--older, more powerful and far more secretive than vampires or werewolves-- is preparing for war. And Sookie Stackhouse will find herself an all-too human pawn in their battle as she investigates the murder of a were-panther.

Everything in Roe's life seems to be going her way. She's happily married, happy to be back at her part-time job in the library, and settled into her new home outside Lawrenceton, Georgia. But when mild-mannered Darius Quattermain goes crazy in her backyard while stacking firewood, it turns out to be just the first in a series of events that become very troublesome.

"There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, Texas, where the residents like to keep to themselves. Even in a town full of secretive people, Olivia Charity is an enigma. She lives with the vampire Lemuel, but no one knows what she does; they only know that she's beautiful and dangerous. Psychic Manfred Bernardo finds out just how dangerous when he goes on a working weekend to Dallas and sees Olivia there with a couple who are both...

"Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world were magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose, who nonetheless takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. The wizards are at a desperate crossroad, even if they won't admit it. They're searching through the small border towns near Mexico trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner,...

Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next.

Harris's rousing fifth Sookie Stackhouse fantasy-mystery pits vampires, were-creatures, shifters and one fairy godmother against a sniper with an apparent aversion to nonhumans. If trying to discover who's behind the shootings isn't enough, the telepathic cocktail waitress from Bon Temps, La., has to cope with a few other distractions: her sexy "Were" friend, Alcide Herveaux, needs her help in his father's bid to become the next leader of the local...

Roe never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she never wanted to see him dead, especially not dropped from a plane right into her own backyard. Luckily, even Lawrenceton's finest know that Roe couldn't possibly be in two places at once, so her name is crossed off the suspect list. But then strange things happen around Roe, ranging from peculiar to violent to potentially deadly.

Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver search for answers to the disappearance of Harper's older sister.

Six months after the death of her parents in a car crash, Catherine Linton returns to her hometown of Lowfield, Mississippi, unconvinced that it was an accident and looking for answers. Her suspicions seem to be confirmed when she stumbles upon the dead and beaten body of her doctor father's long-time nurse. Catherine is right: there are secrets being kept in Lowfield. But if she continues to investigate, the town where she grew up may be the same...

When telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse investigates the body of a woman discovered in vampire Eric Northman's yard, she has no idea the murderer is an enemy out to get her.