Charlaine Harris' beloved telepathic waitress, Sookie Stackhouse, returns in Dead and Gone, the ninth installment in Harris' Sookie Stackhouse vampire series. In Dead and Gone, the weres and shifters have finally decided to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world. But when a were-panther is found dead in the parking lot of the bar where Sookie works, she feels compelled to investigate. As she does, she finds out about another supernatural group of beings who are preparing for war.
Harris' Southern Vampire series is the inspiration for HBO's TV series, True Blood.
- Read a complete review of the first book in the Southern Vampire series, Dead Until Dark.

