Sookie Stackhouse · Book 5

Dead as a Doornail

by Charlaine Harris

Published
3 May 2005
Pages
307
ISBN-13
9780575117068
Type
novel

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Cover of Dead as a Doornail

About this book

Dead as a Doornail (2005) is the fifth Sookie Stackhouse novel, continuing the self-contained mystery-per-book structure layered under the series' ongoing love triangle. It runs 307 pages.

Its place in Sookie Stackhouse

Dead as a Doornail is book 5 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. It follows Dead to the World. It is followed by Definitely Dead. 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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