Sookie Stackhouse · Book 8

A Touch of Dead

Published
6 October 2009
Pages
200
ISBN-13
9780575094444
Type
collection
Cover of A Touch of Dead

About this book

A Touch of Dead (2009) collects Sookie short stories originally published across various multi-author anthologies between 2003 and 2009, an optional extra for completists rather than required reading. It runs 200 pages, slotted between the seventh and eighth novels.

Key facts about A Touch of Dead

Charlaine Harris wrote A Touch of Dead, a collection on our list. It has been out since 6 October 2009. The book has 200 pages.

We list 3 editions of this collection. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780575094444 to find the main one.

A Touch of Dead is book 8 of 16 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. The series has 16 published books. However, the series starts with Dead Until Dark (2001). After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 29 October 2013.

Additionally, Charlaine Harris writes Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard and Harper Connelly, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery, hardboiled mystery and paranormal mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Last Wizards' Ball is the latest published Charlaine Harris book on file, from 2025.

About Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris is an American author who has spent over four decades moving between different corners of crime and speculative fiction, always anchored by a strong regional voice. She's best known for the Southern Vampire Mysteries, thirteen novels following telepathic Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse through a world where vampires have "come out of the coffin," which HBO adapted as the hit series True Blood (2008–2014). See every Charlaine Harris book in order.

Its place in Sookie Stackhouse

A Touch of Dead is book 8 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. It follows All Together Dead. It is followed by From Dead to Worse. See the full Sookie Stackhouse reading order.

Sookie Stackhouse is a telepathic cocktail waitress in the small fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, living in a world where vampires have recently "come out of the coffin" and gone public after inventing synthetic blood. Sookie's mind-reading is more curse than gift -- she can't turn it off, which is exactly why she's drawn to vampire boyfriend Bill Compton and, later, ancient Viking vampire sheriff Eric Northman: around vampires, her head finally goes quiet. Each novel is a self-contained mystery -- a…

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